42 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Q. — If the soil was poor it would take more acres? 



A. — Yes sir. 



Q. — Only got ten ton to the acre? 



A. — Yes sir, the next chart will show that. Like the soil 

 in sourthern Illinois, and even there we want to get the largest 

 returns for the acre we can. The man in southern Illinois with 

 40 acres of land in dairy farming is making more than any of 

 his neighbors with 150 acres, just because he works his land 

 well, getting in his crops at the proper time. 



Q. — Is that the average price Borden pay? 



A. — Yes sir, last year. 



O.— S2y 2 cents. 



A. — 32^2 cents to this particular man who retailed his but- 

 ter in Freeport. 27 y 2 cents average price for butterfat. This 

 man has been in the business for five years, and he sold his butter 

 the first few years for 25 cents. I told him he ought to raise his 

 price. He said sometimes he couldn't make good butter. He 

 first wanted to make good butter and then he would raise his 

 price. We showed him how to control his starter and had good 

 butter nearly every time. 



Q. — How many dairies in Illinois are there where they make 

 butter on the farm and get 32^4 cents for butter 



A. — Very few of them. Mr. Foss had smallpox in the fall 

 and was quarantined. He could not, of course, supply his cus- 

 tomers, but in the long run this did him good. 



Q. — A farmer with 160 acres has got to get 39.15. 



A. — Yes, sir. 



Q. — Were they the same cows ? 



