208 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Mr. Hostetter: How many dairymen do you think out of 10,000 would 

 reach that result; the average dairyman would reach any such result as 

 that test? 



A. We were not talking of the average herd of cows, we were talking 

 of the phenominal few herds. The idea I had in showing the matter of 

 progress, ten years ago wc would not find ten herds in the whole United 

 States, probably, that would produce 7500 pounds of milk, butnov we have 

 10,000 that would produce that; there is the point I wish to make. 



Mr; Hostetter: Now, that $8.00, there are a lot of little things to come 

 out of thav. 



A. I don't think that ve ought to hold out any discouraging points to 

 the few. I understand you that there are a good many little things that 

 should be figured in that $S.U0 profit, such as taxes, etc. There are a good 

 many little things that should be figured in that are not usually figured in. 

 He gets a calf, that is not figured n. the skim milk that he gets in the 

 spring of the year that he could hardly dispense with. All these items 

 are counted in, or should be, when he gets a cow. There are quite a number 

 of items that are not counted that ever balances the other side. 



You misunderstand me, Mr. Hostetter; I was showing the differ- 

 ence between cows of 25 years ago and those of today. I said that there 

 were a number that had made a record of giving 20 pounds of butter p.^r 

 week, and that twenty and Iventy-five years ago there were not ten herds 

 of dairy cows producing an average of over 7500 pounds of milk per capita 

 per year; that is the point I am getting at. 



UNFINISHED BATTLES. 



MRS. MAYO OF BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN. 



A few years ago we listened to an animated discussion between two old 

 soldiers of the civil war. 



The subject under controversy was the advisability of the United 

 States maintaining a standing army. One of these men was a regular army 



