166 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



The negative amount shown in the profit column of system 

 No. i means that if all labor is paid for at market price there 

 would be an indebtedness of $2.90, besides the miscellaneous 

 expenses incurred in running the farm. Of course a dairyman 

 may be able to make some sort of a bare living by this system, 

 but it is only by having the women and children do part of the 

 work for which they receive no remuneration whatever. There 

 aii dairy farms in Illinois conducted in this manner that do not 

 pay 5 per cent interest on the investment, and this is not all, for 

 the farm is continually running down in producing power, so 

 that smaller and smaller yields will be obtained year after year, 

 malcing this deplorable condition grow gradually worse. Sys- 

 tem No. 2 has %yj2. to meet running expenses, system No. 3 has 

 $1,0^6 and system No. 4 has $3,911, the larger portion of which 

 is profit above interest on the investment, and pay for labor, in- 

 cluding the proprietor's at common wages. If, as is likel) to 

 be done on more intelligently conducted farms, better methods 

 of breeding were instituted under systems No. 3 and 4, so as to 

 increase the efficiency of the cows, there would be a much larger 

 difference in the total returns than here indicated. 



Summary of the Four Systems. 



System. No. 1. No. 2. No. 3. No. 4. 



Lbs. digestible protein 



available 26,804 35,024 48.850 80,237 



Lbs. total digest 1 ' 1 -»e nu- 

 trients available .... 230,783 304,661 360,197 592,039 



Average No. cow* kept . 31.7 429 54 84 



Total pounds milk pro- 

 duced 158,500 235,950 324,000 504,000 



Total value milk produc- 

 ed * $2,425 $3,610 $4,957 $7,711 



Total value of products . 2,627 3,882 5,301 8,246 



Left for running ex- 

 penses and profit $2.90 $772 $1,936 $3,911 



