ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 49, 



Mr. Johnson : I was wondering, with mill feed |11 a ton 

 and the butter only costing 3 cents and milk only 20 cents, 

 why we have not become immensely wealthy; our feed is 

 only |5 or |6 a ton, and we get from 60 to 80 cents for the 

 milk. I don't see why we don't get immensely rich. 



Prof. Haecker: You would if the business were carried 

 on properly. 



Mr. Monrad : You are milking the wrong cow. 



Mr. Hostetter: Which costs the more, the labor or the 

 food? 



Prof. Haecker: We can take no account of the labor, 

 because there is such a variation, and if we should charge 

 for our labor at all, it would not be applicable to your condi- 

 tions, and on that account we leave it entirely open. I simply 

 make a record of the cost of the food at market price. 



The Chairman: You mean that your conditions are dif- 

 ferent to those on the farm and the figures that you would 

 secure from your labor account would not be applicable on 

 the farm? 



Prof. Haecker: No, it would not; it would simply be 

 misleading. 



Mr. Hostetter: What is the reason that the farmer 

 hasn't grown rich, as Mr. Johnson says? 



Prof. Haecker: He will close his eyes to facts; he won't 

 see them. He gets a notion into his head that a certain 

 kind of cow is grand and the kind that he wants, and he 

 will go along year after year milking that sort of cow, when 

 another type would double the balance on the ledger account. 



Mr. Seeley: What is the roughage of which you speak? 



Prof . Haecker : In former years it was prairie hay. This 

 winter we are using fodder corn. Last winter, while this 

 record was being made up, we used ensilage, and what. little 

 hay we used was prairie hay. 



Mr. Larkin: I represent perhaps a class of dairymen 

 who are conspicous by their absence here today, whose milk 

 is carried to the condensing factory. I notice in all your 

 remarks you have made butter the standard by which you 

 compute costs and prices. Of course there is a great deal 



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