ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. ^f 



feel enough interested to attend each session and help make the meeting: 

 a success. 



In conclusion, let me say I hcpe that the people who attend this?, 

 meeting will feel that their time has not been lost, and when we ad- 

 journ, they can go to their work with renewed vigor and assurance that, 

 they have been repaid for attending the twenty-seventh annual meeting: 

 of the Illinois State Dairy Association. 



ECONOMICAL MILK PRODUCTION. 



PROF. T. L. HAECKER, MINNESOTA DAIRY SCHOOL, ST. ANTHONY 



PARK. 



By the President: Ladies and Gentlemen, I have the honor of in- 

 troducing to you Prof. T. L. Haecker. 



Ladies and Gentlemen— I am glad to again have the privilege of 

 meeting with the dairymen of Illinois. And yet I feel as though I owe 

 you an apology for not having had any time to prepare myself for this, 

 talk. I could hardly see my way clear to leave my classes, but your- 

 secretary did not seem disposed to have it otherwise. 



The little talk I am to give this afternoon is no set lecture and L 

 hope as I go along, if a point is brought out upon which any person wish- 

 es further information, you will be free to speak up at once, and I will tak® 

 pleasure in saying anything more in connection with it if I can. 



We have been some nine years investigating milk production at the.- 

 experiment station in Minnesota. We did this to ascertain what it \^ou Id 

 cost to produce milk and butter fat. In Minnesota we are chiefly en- 

 gaged in butter production, consequently we have not paid as much at- 

 tention to the profits in milk as we have in the production of butter fat, 

 so the data I have is not strictly adapted to those who are simply dealing; 

 in milk or depend upon the pay from a given quantity of milk. Yet t 



