38 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



thought it was just another one of those silly ideas we often 

 hear about. But, after a while, I also got the fever and 

 thought it would pay us to send to Chester for lime at sixty 

 cents a ton and 60!c more for freight and try out the idea. 

 We did so and were wonderfully surprised at the results 

 obtained. 



We had been having trouble with our alfalfa for some 

 time and I finally decided to lime our ground and then 

 spread it with manure. We would plow the ground along 

 in the spring and spread the lime on two to four tons to the 

 acre and then put on about fifteen or twenty pounds of 

 alfalfa seed to the acre. And, since then, we have not had 

 one failure. 



It certainly ought not to be very difficult for us fellows 

 who are dairymen to get enough manure to put on our 

 ground where we are going to sow alfalfa or clover. 



Our rations for cows cost us some money. I cannot 

 make milk as cheap as our brother stated this morning it 

 could be made in his state. That ration costs me, on the 

 basis of prices today and with cows giving an average of 

 four gallons of milk a day, about $1.95 per hundred, to say 

 nothing of the labor involved. And I think I am producing 

 much cheaper than others I know of. We ought to get this 

 ration and get the right ration and we ought to save all the 

 feed we can and still feed liberally. 



A fellow out in our country had the tendency to live 

 fast, but the old folks constantly cautioned him to save. 

 After a while, the boy got married and he remembered 

 what his folks had told him. He got married and went off 

 with his bride to the city, went into the best hotel he could 

 find and took the best room in the place. After staying 

 there five days, he went up to the hotel clerk and asked for 

 the bill. The clerk pondered a while, then replied : "Ten 

 dollars a day, five days, $50 apiece. That makes $100.'* 

 This fellow let on they had no meals there, but the clerk 

 said : 'That doesn't matter. They were here for you and 

 you will have to pay for them just the same." The boy 

 told him he'd see him later and went up to his room and 

 packed their things up. When he came down again, the 



