ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



at high prices, and now they are repenting of their* rashness. 

 They did not calculate on the large fall make. If you remember. 

 the pastures in August, September and October were green, 

 like unto June, and milk was made for less money than for many 

 3^ears past. Fortunate was the man who had contracted his milk 

 at prices usually prevailing in the fall. We are now feeling the 

 effect of this surplus of freezer stock, and the price on fine cream- 

 ery butter is five cents lower per pound than a year ago at this 

 time. Hence it behooves you ''in the time of prosperity to pre- 

 pare for adversity." I do not use this quotation in an alarming 

 sense, but want to make it strong enough that an intelligent man 

 will heed and weigh it carefully. I cannot think of a good dairy- 

 man who is not intelligent, so every one of vou think it over care- 

 fully. 



You must do something yourselves to meet lower prices for 

 your product in the summer time, which, as I view the market 

 horizen, seems inevitable, and how to do it and still keep the net 

 profit as large as in 1903, is the problem before you, the producers. 



You will have to call to your aid the most scientific as-ri- 

 cultural knowledge to be found. This can be had from your 

 own college at Champaign, but don't stop at that, take two or 

 three agricultural papers and be sure one of them is Hoard's 

 Dairyman, and read thirty minutes every day for a year. After 

 that you will get ''Henry's Feeds and Feeding," the Dairyman's 

 Hand Book issued by the National Dairy Union and Cobb's book 

 on dairying, etc., etc. You will, by doing this, renew your inter- 

 est in your farms, and your neighbors will wonder how you got 

 those new f angled notions about handling your soil to preserve 

 it and still give you large crops, how to care for those crops so 

 that they can be fed in the most palatable form, and then decide 

 which of the young stock is best to raise. These are all wonder- 

 fully interesting subjects, and the young people on the farm will 

 stay there if you will interest them in all the different departments. 

 Don't be afraid to talk over scientific dairying with them. You 

 must not be afraid of this word "Science." It is simply truth, 

 knowledge, used as true or right knowledge of dairying. Give 



