SS ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



commercial fertilizers, but I believe we can use commercial fer- 

 tilizers to an advantage, and it is our purpose this year to try 

 some. We propose to use on one of our places commercial fer- 

 tilizer with oats and corn and see what the result will be. It is 

 impossible to fertilize all of our land with our cows, they do not 

 produce enough. They tell us a cow ought to fertilize an acre 

 of land. Maybe that is so. 



I also heard some of them talking about selling our products. 

 Some of our friends contend that it is not profitable to sell the 

 whole of the milk products of the farm, and our lady friend on 

 buttermaking presents that idea. I think that idea is all right 

 for people who live in a community where they are not accessa- 

 TdIc to the market and get a price sufiicient to make the difference 

 between the value of the skim milk and the entire product. If I 

 lived in a community where I could not sell to a condensor at 

 -$1.26J4 the year around, why I would try to have a separator 

 and separate the cream and feed the milk on the farm; otherwise 

 it is necessary for us to feed our cows and to raise our hogs in a 

 different way. 



Another thing, I see on the program that some one is to 

 talk on ''How to Make the Most Money Out of Our High Priced 

 Land." I want to make a suggestion to those who are trying to 

 make money out of their high priced land, to those who are trying 

 to solve that problem. I want to suggest to them that they sell it 

 and come down here in this portion of the country where you can 

 get land at a lower price and make a better profit. I can help 

 those fellows out very much. Just think of it now ! Land here 

 within fifty miles of the great city of St. Louis, close to the county 

 seat, with 3,500 inhabitants, without any saloons, though that 

 might not be desirable to some of you, and with all the educational 

 facilities that are possible for a city to have and with the best of 

 schools and that is what we have here. In fact, the schools are so 

 good that they have commenced having examinations for boys' to 

 go to West Point and to the Military Schools and we were put in 

 ■competition with Madison County and all the rest and we never 

 fail to take off the prizes, two West Point and two to Annapolis 



