60 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



and a small farm can do a good business. You can raise nearly 

 as much on one acre cultivated as you can get from 4 or 5 of 

 pasture; and the cow will do better. She has the same feed all 

 the time. You take the dairymen who turn their cows out in 

 the spring, and nine out of ten do this, and make no provision 

 for dry weather, when the dry weather comes they shrink and 

 get below a profit. You ought to make provision for that dry 

 time. If you haven't a silo, have oats and peas and hold those 

 cows up all the time; keep the milk flow up. They think you 

 can't make milk in hot weather. I have had the biggest flow of 

 any time in the year, by taking care of them then and feeding 

 them right. In the fall there are lots who make the mistake of 

 turning the cows out who are going to freshen, and they will 

 run down, and they won't come in and get started right. Up in 

 our section we are all milk producers. Feed our cows and all the 

 feed goes back on the farm through the cow in the form of 

 manure. You control the price of your market by the care of 

 your dairy cow. That is where you market it. 



The three essential points in dairying, good crops to raise 

 for feed, good feeding and then you want to select good cows 

 of the dairy type. Then you want a good dairyman, or it will 

 not amount to much. They should all work together. If you 

 don't give the cow good care, you will not get good results. I 

 won't talk any longer. 



Mr. Auten is not able to be with us this morning, but we 

 have a man here who can awaken enthusiasm if any one can. 

 He is assistant pure food commissioner of Michigan and a prac- 

 tical dairyman. I take pleasure in presenting Mr. Hull. 



