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most profitable, but a combined summer and winter was best 
and most natural. Had sokl to the condensing company for 
seven years. Thought summer milk had paid him the best. 
No two farms would yield alike. Some had more pasture 
than others. He fed in summer during drought. If he fed 
grain summer and winter it would be hard to decide as to 
summer and winter profit It was a question of climate, 
drought, and many other local causes. 
J. R. McLean thought to avoid low prices we must sell our 
product just as soon as the market will receive it. If held 
it closes the market. Must sell as soon as made. 
^ D. C. Snow, McLean county, came to learn, but not to talk; 
but thought everyone having real, practical experience, should 
be willing to give it. He thought to make milk during the 
whole yeai the best plan would be to have his cows come in 
in December. Fed meal during the whole year, often as high 
as a peck per cow a day. It always paid to feed good milch 
cows. 
Judge Wilcox said practically to have a dairy come in 
just as you desired had proved a failure. No one could cal 
culate with any degree of certainty as long as so many calves 
are lost We can not buy good cows to keep up our milk in 
winter. To fill the place of every cow sold to a butcher occa¬ 
sioned a loss of fifteen dollars, at least. It was all well in 
theory, but not in practice. Had lost twenty to thirty calves 
in one dairy of forty to fifty cows. Could make no plans 
with any certainty. 
J. Smallwood, Freeport, wanted to learn. He wanted to 
know the exact cost of making milk in winter as compared 
with summer. He thought the winter dairy much the best 
Would have two-thirds of his cows come in in September 
and remainder in winter. Needed the sour milk in winter to 
feed pigs, as well as in summer; but the exact difference 
between the two seasons was what he wanted to know. 
“Manure, How to Care For and How to Apply it,” was 
taken up, and John Keating, of Elgin, delivered the following 
interesting address on the subject. 
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