34 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



than to do any farm work, but it is the feeling of dependence you have. I 

 have borrowed more trouble in this line than in anything else connected 

 with the dairy business. The actual loss from this cause is practically noth- 

 ing. 



To repeat what I have just said, the average farmer should keep one 

 milch cow to every fourteen acres of land. 



The milking must be considered part of the day's work. 



The milk or cream must be sent to the factory. 



The cows should be dairy cows, and the farmer should try to perpetu- 

 ate their milking qualities. Don't try to make a first-class beef animal and 

 a first-class milker out of the same animal. 



The average farmer should give his boys and girls better and more 

 school discipline. 



We should find a market for our corn and oats on our own farms. We 

 sell less fertility in butter and cheese than any other farm product. 



Now, I am not so egotistical as to think that I have told all there is to 

 he known about the dairy for the average farm. I would not say I had, even 

 if I thought so. 



There was a very smart dealer in dairy supplies who got some of the con- 

 ceit taken out of him at one of the Wisconsin institutes. He had an excel- 

 lent display of dairy apparatus, and was asked to show them, and explain 

 their use, before the audience. He did so, and said that there was not a sin- 

 gle thing lacking in his display for making first-class butter. He even went 

 so far as to say that if there was anyone in the audience who could mention a 

 single thing that was necessary for making first-class butter that he did not 

 have on exhibition, he would give them the entire outfit. 



An old lady in the back of the room arose, and in a squeaky voice, she 

 said, "I do not see the cow." 



It is possible that I have left out something as important as the cow. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Jones: Isn't the number of acres to the cow that Mr. Hostetter 

 gives entirely too large? In my opinion, three or four acres to the cow 



