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chased, and the hme stone has been spread according to the 

 teachings of Dr. Hopkins, and we will follow the lime with 

 phosphate rock. A modern barn — not expensive — was built ac- 

 cording to government plans furnished free. This barn at this 

 time is being used for all purposes, but next summer it is our 

 intention to build a loafing shed for the cattle and they will only 

 go to the present barn when they are being milked. A modern 

 tile silo has also been built, and it has been filled with ensilage 

 taken from the farm, which only a year ago was so very poor. 



Now in order to go at this thing properly, we found it 

 takes capital, which the banker is willing to help you get, pro-' 

 vided you show him that you are in earnest in this matter. 



A milk house has since been built and a 3-horse power en- 

 gine and boiler have been installed. A cream separator has been 

 purchased. Milk testers and milk scales have been purchased. 

 A large wagon scale has been purchased, and it is the intention 

 of having everything going in and out of the barn weighed. 

 We are trying to get this proposition on to a basis where we 

 know just what it will do, and not work by the rule of thumbs. 



Now the average farmer perhaps may not care to spend 

 quite as much money as we have, but some one must take the 

 lead, and we are simply trying to prove that the dairy interests 

 will pay on a fair investment of money if it is conducted on 

 business lines. We are trying to show that cows can be made 

 revenue producers and must not be boarders. 



This is a most interesting and fascinating study, but there 

 are men here who are so much more capable to tell the story 

 than I can, but I do want to say before I close that I hope to 

 live long enough to see creameries and cheese factories dotted 

 all over this state. There is big money in cheese and I-hope that 

 there will be some one at this meeting to tell us more about it. 



And now in closing, I want to say that the future of Illi- 

 nois, to my notion, lies in promoting the dairy interests. I have 

 lived here all my life. My interests take me. all over the United 

 States, and ever since I have become hiterested in this move- 

 ment I never fail to inquire just what the dairy interests are 



