366 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



All six of these dairymen had the same air above them, the 

 same soil beneath them, and the same market. Why, then, this 

 enormous difference in returns? It is simply a question of the 

 brains put into the business. All over this country are individual 

 dairymen whose success is noticeable, and who illustrate by their 

 results that no matter what the locality, there are great possibili- 

 ties in dairying when intelligently pursued. They are examples 

 of what brains can do for a man. 



Fortunes Made and Fortunes Lost. 



Fortunes have been made and fortunes have been lost in 

 dairy farming. To substantiate this, and to show the tremendous 

 waste of energy on dairy farms, the following examples are 

 given : 



Two men of good habits started in the dairy business twen- 

 ty-five 3^ears ago, the one with nothing, and the other with a 320- 

 acre farm, paid for. At the present time, the former has a large 

 farm, well stocked with a dairy herd, and good buildings, besides 

 a bank account, all of which was made from his dairy herd. The 

 latter, through poor judgment, guess work, and non-application 

 of the best methods, lost the farm he already had. The purchas- 

 ing of large amounts of high-priced concentrates was one factor 

 in this failure. It finally took 80 acres of land to pay the bill for 

 these purchased feeds, alone. 



One Dairyman Loses a Farm; His Successor Takes in $840 a Month 



Another man, owning a farm of 120 acres, kept 20 cows and 

 produced from two to four cans of milk per day, the proprietor 

 and two hired men doing the work. The profits were so small 

 that the farm was finally lost. The farm was purchased by a 

 man who kept three hired men and 63 cows on the same 120 

 acres of land, producing thirty cans of milk per day during the 

 flush of the season. His milk for one month, shortly after he 

 began, brought $840. This is an example of brain fertility, and 

 not soil fertility, for the soil was the same. 



