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most profitable, but a combined summer and winter was best 

 and most natural. Had sold to ttie condensing company for 

 seven years. Thought summer milk had paid him the best. 

 No two farms would yield alike. Some had more pasture 

 than others. He fed in summer during drought. If he fed 

 grain summer and winter it would be hard to decide as to 

 summer and winter profit It was a question of climate, 

 drought, and many other local causes. 



J. R. McLean thought to avoid low prices we must sell our 

 product just as soon as the market will receive it. If held 

 it closes the market. Must sell as soon as made. 



D. C. Snow, McLean county, came to learn, but not to talk; 

 but thought everyone having real, practical experience, should 

 be willing to give it. He thought to make milk during the 

 whole year the best plan would be to have his cows come in 

 in December. Fed meal during the whole year, often as high 

 as a peck per cow a day. It always paid to feed good milch 

 cows. 



Judge Wilcox said practically to have a dairj^ come in 

 just as you desired had proved a failure. No one could cal 

 culate with any degree of certainty as long as so many calves 

 are lost We f;an not buy good cows to keep up our milk in 

 winter. To fill the place of every cow sold to a butcher occa- 

 sioned a loss of fifteen dollars, at least. It was all well in 

 theory, but not in practice. Had lost twenty to thirty calves 

 in one dairy of forty to fifty cows. Could make no plans 

 with any certainty. 



J. Smallwood, Freeport, wanted to learn. He wanted to 

 know the exact cost of making milk in winter as compared 

 with summer. He thought the winter dairy much the best 

 Would have two-thirds of his cows come in in September^ 

 and remainder in winter. Needed the sour milk in winter to 

 feed pigs, as well as in summer; but the exact difference 

 between the two seasons was what he wanted to know. 



"Manure, How to Care For and How to Apply it," was 

 taken up, and John Keating, of Elgin, delivered the following- 

 interesting address on the subject. 



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