194 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



Elg"in for nie? 'Have you anyone to identify you/ he asked, and 

 I said to him, I don't know a soul in this town, but, mister, I am 

 neither a counterfeiter nor a rogue, but an honest farmer and 

 pay my bills, and here are the proofs, and T held out my hands. 

 He looked at them and said: Til cash the check/ I told this 

 young man that if I had had hands like his, I wouldn't have got- 

 ten the money. 



We want to encourage more dairying. Get good cows, build 

 up a farm and pay for it as you go along; you will have a steady 

 income the 3^ear around ; you can labor the year round, keep more 

 help in the winter than summer, it is a good steady business. 



O : What would you suggest in a case like this : T want a 

 cow or two for my own use, one for each of the hired men : and 

 with so few cows we can't have a silo ; you can't build ii for so 

 few cows and therefore they do not get the best feed. Would 

 you suggest my doing something else? 



A : I never talked to a man owning cattle and put the ques- 

 tion to him, where he had no more than 8 or lo cows: Don't 

 these cows pay you as well or better than anything else on your 

 farm, but what he said *yes.' I would suggest to you to get 

 more cows. 



Q : It is a hard matter in this part of the country to get a 

 good cow. If the milk testing people would come down here 

 and look us over condemning the poor cows, we would not have 

 milk enough for our own use. 



A : That's quite a conundrum : to get a good cow. We cull out 

 ov: cows in the spring and go into vVisconsin, jNlinnesota and 

 Tov^'a and replace them. We fonnerly ^ienl up there and picked 

 out the cows we wanted to buy, as I said before, but now they 

 pick out tiie cows they want to sell. The demand is greater than 

 the production. 



Put every cow on her financial standing You talk about 

 one- third of the co.vs not paying for t'U^ir keep in this state; 

 many cows in the State of Illinois never had an opportunity from 

 a lack of care and proper feed; they have had no show at all. 



