30 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



twenty-five cows for the winter, returning the cost of lime- 

 stone the first year, while the effects of the limestone will 

 last for ten or more years. A tremendous saving in feed 

 cost is available to most dairymen by a change in rotation, 

 and were this idea fully grasped by all dairymen, the rail- 

 roads would be unable to draw limestone as fast as the 

 dairymen would want to apply it. 



