ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 2OI 



A. Jud's must be a pretty fair farm, a little better than the average. 

 He is the ideal I am setting up. The farms around Aurora, no better 

 land in the State of Illinois than up around that section, and at Lanark, 

 and there are oceans of it in this state just as good and better. 



Mr. Hostetter: You didn't put in any thing he paid our for feed. He 

 probably had to buy $1000 worth of feed. 



A. He buys a vast quantity of bran, but he assures me and his word 

 is as good as gold), that he sells products from his farm more than enough 

 to buy his bran so as to offset that item. 



Q. What about taxes? 



A. This is from the renter's standpoint. 



Mr. Stewart: Was that the brain of the man or the farm. Wouldn't 

 that man be worth ?2500 to do business with? 



A. It is the ideal. The average men on our farms can't better it, 

 but he can grasp at it. And I think if all the young men could see these 

 figures they would be encouraged. The possibilities — we have not be- 

 gun to touch it yet. I hope to see the day when we talk of how many 

 cows to an acre, instead of how many acres to the cow. 



Mr. Long: These cows are changed and these machines wear our, 

 anything for the depreciation of the machines? 



A. That is another point. He is now keeping 116 cows; he turns 

 off in the spring probably one-third to one-half; makes comparatively 

 small amount of milk for the summer. But he has this intelligence, he 

 buys large frames and feeds them high, twenty pounds to an animal a 

 day, hence in the spring of the year, when these cows are ready to be 

 turned off, he ships them into Chicago. His experience last year was 

 this: Cows that cost him $48 he sold as dry cows for $52 on the average. 

 That shows where the brain comes in. This profit we didn't mark 

 here. 



Q. You can't buy milch cows for $48. 



A. You get Jud Mason to stir around the country for you; he can. 

 I am trying to reach over the heads of those on the front seat. I want 

 the boys to stay on the farms and keep their home like the ones I see 



