30 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



The personal item is the milk and cream used by the fam- 

 ily. We use at least a quart of milk a day and all the cream we 

 want. The manure from those cows is worth $220. We charge 

 the cows $3 a ton for bedding, and whatever crop that manure 

 goes to is charged $1 a load. The skim milk fed to calves and 

 hogs was valued at $165.11, figured at 20 cents a hundred, al- 

 though we found we actually got 41 cents per hundred. The 

 stock sold, the calves and the cows that we did not ■ need 

 amounted to $546. On the first of March we take an inventory, 

 everything is appraised, and we can tell whether we are gaining 

 or losing. The total receipts were $2,868.95, the total from 

 each cow $179.30, the total receipts for butter was $1,854.62, 

 the cost per pound $.435, the cost per cow was $149.90; the 

 total gain was $470.61, or $29.40 per cow. The value of the 16 

 cows was $1,190, and the gain was $470.61. The gain on the 

 money invested was nearly 40^^, or 39^^^ plus after all the horse 

 labor and all the man labor, rent of barn and interest on money 

 invested. It means just this : Suppose that any one of you gen- 

 tlemen was living in the city of Peoria today. You will borrow 

 money, rent a farm, hire everything done, not touch a thing, just 

 sit down here in Peoria ; and suppose you get a man to run it as 

 I do, you won't need a cent of money, but you get $470.61 just 

 for your time to figure it out. 



A great many men in Mr. Mason's territory say it does not 

 pay to raise the calves. Here we have the cost of 10 head of 

 young stock : 



