108 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



not see why winter dairying will not be the most profitable. Nine 

 out of ten farmers say they cannot make it pay in the winter 

 time and under their conditions I do not wonder; but if you go at 

 it right you can make it a better proposition. 



There are two advantages especially; you take advantage of 

 the difference in price and you protect yourselves against the 

 many men speculating on your product. My real reason for 

 believing that winter dairying is more profitable than summer 

 dairying is this, in milking cows in summer you must keep them 

 in winter. It takes two-thirds of what the cow eats to maintain 

 her ; you must maintain her whether she is milking or dry in win- 

 ter. The best dairy men that I have ever ran across are in busi- 

 ness in the winter as well as in the summer. Men that I consider 

 the most successful say they make more out of the cow by dairy- 

 ing in the winter. It costs more to feed an 1 t^ke care of them 

 in the winter than it does in the summer, but you have your milk 

 at a time when the price is almost double, always 10 cents differ- 

 ence in the price on a pound of buter fat in summer and in win- 

 ter, so you will have an advantage there. 



Mr. Newman : I want to take exceptions to this because I 

 have my idea that it costs more in winter than in spring. I would 

 like to ask you farmers who live near here how many acres does 

 it cost? 



Member : It takes from 2^ to 3 acres. 



Mr. Newman : Do you get anything else except that pastur- 

 age in the summer time, how much corn? 



Member: iu to 12 acres. 



Mr. Newman : If you will look into it, it is cheaper in win- 

 ter than it is in summer. You take it in the Elgin district, there 

 are more cows milked in winter than in summer and they are 

 doing it for good hard dollars. You men in this State want to 

 look at these things from a commercial point of view. We want 

 to tell you the facts, you can make more dollars by having your 

 cows come in in October. I do not want Mr. Jorgenson to stand 



