ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



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milk solids which we have not talked about at all, as their place on butter 

 is much lower than in the proportion of milk solids. Here is the Brown 

 Swiss that has a net profitjof $207.69, and the Red Polled, their net profit 

 on milk solids is $201.65. Then comes the Jerseys with only 13 cents 

 less than the Red Polled, $201.52. I think this is a fair sample of those 

 cows. 



It has been stated very freely pnd very often by visitors at the Model 

 Dairy that the prices that we got for our products were too excessive; 

 that the ordinary dairyman could not get them. I presume a good many 

 of you were at the Pan-American. Those of you who visited the Model 

 Dairy probably noticed above each cow a history — a bulletin, recording 

 for the first week, and from that on, and from the first of May and so 

 on. There were two records showing just what each cow had • done. 

 They have said that the price of 25 cents per pound for butter was too 

 high. We had no trouble in selling the butter, and a good share of it 

 went at 35 cents, and if we had had fifty times as much as we had we 

 could have sold it all. 



Why I allude to this is for this reason: That a dairyman that will 

 take care of the cows as those cows were taken care of, will feed the cows 

 as they were fed, will treat the milk as that was treated, in fact, will go 

 through the whole thing and keep that old thing with the new name, bac- 

 teria or microbes — I call it dirt — keep that out, there is no reason why 

 every one of us can't get more than 25 cents a pound for butter. 



I had an experience that I must tell you about. It will be 21 years 

 next spring that I bought a farm. I had a few hundred dollars to pay 

 down and good health and lots of gumption. I also had a better half 

 and we worked together and we managed to get along, but I tell you the 

 first four or five years was up hill work. I got discouraged and would 

 probably have thrown it up but for better advice from the better half. I 

 made up my mind that I had got to make some changes; that I must get 

 out of that rut or I would not succeed. I timed my cows so they would 

 come in in the fall, and began to make butter on the farm, as the cheese 



