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ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



have a separator, which you should have if you have not got one, for it 

 will pay you to get one at once. You have all heard how the hog pays 

 off the mortgage. I do not believe he pays it alone; I think the cow 

 has as much to do with paying off the debt as the hog. 



You all know there is nothing better for pigs than good slop, or 

 warm milk, with shift stuff or shorts. Your pigs will grow faster and at 

 less expense by using milk. Then your large hogs can run after the cows, 

 saving the corn, otherwise you would have to feed. 



While you are doing so many good things, see what the wife can do 

 at the same time. Having all of this milk means plenty of cream, which 

 can be made into good butter. Suppose you sell only 40 or 50 pounds 

 a week, won't that pay the grocery bill and possibly the dry goods bill? 

 With ten cows and taking a low estimate of six pounds to the cow, will 

 make you 60 pounds per week. If you milk only two or three cows can 

 you make as good butter? No, only by hardest work of the wife. Her 

 butter will not score as high, from the fact that the first cream has too 

 much acidity to mix with the last skimmings, causing a loss of butter, 

 and her butter has either a flat taste or an old strong flavor. Can you 

 afford to milk two or three cows? Just think of the advantages a dairy 

 gives you. You have pure, sweet butter for your table and an income 

 of $15.00 per week from ten cows at the low estimate. A cow that 

 makes six pounds per week will eat as much as one that will make 

 twelve to thirteen pounds. Why not have the best? 



Let me give you the experience of a couple I know. They began 

 housekeeping. The wife made more butter from six cows than could be 

 used at home, so she sent it to the store. At first she received 18 cents, 

 but she found that eight to ten pounds per week paid for the groceries 

 in a family of four. When they saw what a few cows would do, they 

 decided to increase the number of cows, and at the end of the year 

 found that their groceries and help in the house had been paid. Every 

 year they gained, not only in number of cows and butter, but also iD 

 price, their butter selling at the highest prices, 20 to 22 cents at that 

 time. This took them about four years, after which they delivered all 

 their product to one merchant who secured customers at 25 cents per 

 pound. At present they make 175 pounds or more, which they deliver to 



