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only $32.95 per cow, a difference of $17.58 per cow. Those 

 who read, fed their cows better. The average cost of feed per 

 cow was $35.15 per year, with a profit of $15.06 per cow. Those 

 who did not read only fed $32.29 worth of feed per cow, and it 

 was $2.86 less than the others, and made a profit of less than 

 $1.00 per cow. It pays to read, and because they do not read is 

 why so many so-called dairymen do not make a success. So the 

 buttermaker must urge his patrons to read. Send a list of their 

 names to the Experiment Station and request them to send 

 bulletins which would be of interest to farmers and dairymen. 

 Send to publishers of dairy papers and get a number of samples 

 of their papers, and give them out. 



We, as buttermakers and dairymen, must put our shoulders 

 to the wheel, if we expect things to go here in Illinois. And, by 

 the way, Illinois is forging to the front as a dairy state, according 

 to the United States census report for 1900. Illinois hal 1,007,664 

 cows, total value of the product of the cow, $29,633,619, or about 

 $29.60 per cow. A rather small average you say? Yes, it 

 might be better, and is today, as I will show you later. 



But let us look around us. The same census gave Kansas, 

 Nebraska and South Dakota a credit of $20.00 per cow, or a little 

 less. Iowa, a great dairy state, only $19.30; Minnesota, $28.00; 

 Vermont, $36.00; New York, $37.00, and New Hampshire 

 $55.00. So you see we are by no means the lowest, and can 

 only see in the future (I do not know how far) the possibilities 

 that are before us. 



But we have moved up a notch or two since 1900, and 

 according to Dairy Commissioner Jones, Illinois has 1,700,000 

 cows, total volue of produce about $60,000,000, or an average 

 of $35.00 per cow. At this rate of increase (and I believe it is 

 possible for a dairyman to increase the value of the product oi' 

 his cow at the rate of $1.00 per year) I say that an increase of 

 $1.00 per cow per year for the next twenty years would place 

 our average where New Hampshire was in 1900, with a credit of 

 $55.00 per cow, and with our 1,700,000 cows this $20.00 increase 



