8^ ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN^S ASSOCIATION. 



will yield you six to eight thousand pounds of milk. The sooner a poor coW 

 — I mean a poor milker — is converted into beef, the better for the owner. 

 No man can afford to milk a poor milker ; no man should be satisfied with 

 a less average of his entire dairy, than an average of 7,000 of good milk. 

 Far better to have an average of 10,000 pounds. This last point will never 

 be reached without great care and the choicest food, and no poor milkers. 



The manufacture of milk here is a great waste. Three-fourths, and per- 

 haps more, of the milk of the State of Illinois is manufactured on a percent- 

 age. This, in my opinion, is all wrong for the producer. Every manufac- 

 turer should buy his milk at a given price, and then if he does his business 

 poorly it is his own loss, not the producer's. It now takes in the State of 

 Illinois nearly eleven pounds of milk to make a pound of cured cheese ; and 

 twenty-seven to twenty-eight pounds of milk to a pound of butter. Part of 

 this is chargeable to the producer, but a large part is chargeable to the man- 

 ufacturer. Nine pounds of milk ought to make one pound of cured cheese, 

 and twenty- three pounds one pound of choice butter. Now figure the dif- 

 ference in the net proceeds of one cow, and you will be astonished. It will 

 make over ten dollars per cow, or i?10,000,000 on 1,000,000 cows. I have not 

 a doubt that the dairymen of the State of Illinois lose by bad management 

 of their cows and the bad management of the manufacturers, $5,000,000 

 every year. 



Thus now, if our associations can suggest, and the dairymen improve by 

 their suggestions so that one-half the above sum be saved, we are amply 

 paid for all our time and effort. 



C. C. BuELL had no figures; lie coincided in tlie main witli 

 Mr. Boies; lie tlionght it might be possible to make a pound 

 of butter from twenty-three pounds of milk. The cows in 

 the Northwest, as a whole, are "scalawags;" they are not 

 what they ought to be; breeds have mu-ii to do with it; must 

 look to improved methods of manufacturing; in New York 

 the factory sj^stem was carried on wdth poor apparatus and 

 no conveniences; if poor in that old State what must ours be 

 in a new State ? Many improvements can yet be made in 

 buildings, apparatus, and breeds of cows, all of which will 

 tend to improve our interests. 



No. 8 — " The best and cheapest feed to keep up the supply 

 of milk during the summer drought," was called for, and S. 

 W. KiNGSLEY said he believed sowed or drilled corn or Hun- 

 garian grass the best article of food to keep up the milk dur- 

 ing a dry time; this was the cheapest and most convenient 

 for the farmer to resort to; he fed bran and meal all summer; 



