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ILLINOIS. STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



figures show that an intensive system of dairy farming will 

 rapidly increase the profits and the producing power of the farm, 

 even though all the milk is sold, if the system includes the liberal 

 growing of legumes, the careful saving and applying of all ma- 

 nure, and the addition of a few cents' worth of mineral con- 

 stituents per acre annually, thus making not only a permanent 

 agriculture, but an accumulative agriculture which at the same 

 time is highly remunerative. 



