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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
will yield you six to eight thousand pounds of milk. The sooner a poor cow 
-I mean a poor milker-is converted into beef, the better for the owner 
No man can afford to milk a poor milker; no man should be satisfied with 
a less average of his entire dairy, than an average of 7,000 of good mi r. 
Far better to have an average of 10,000 pounds. This last point will never 
be reached without great care and the choicest food, and no poor milkers. 
The manufacture of milk here is a great waste. Three-fourths, and per¬ 
haps more of the milk of the State of Illinois is manufactured on a percent¬ 
age. This in my opinion, is all wrong for the producer. Every manufac¬ 
turer should buy his milk at a given, price, and then if he does his business 
poorly it is his own loss, not the producer’s. It now takes m the State of 
Illinois nearly eleven pounds of milk to make a pound of cured cheese; and 
twenty-seven to twenty-eight pounds of milk to a pound of butter. Part o 
this is chargeable to the producer, but a large part is chargeable to the man¬ 
ufacturer. Nine pounds of milk ought to make one pound of cured cheese, 
and twenty-three pounds one pound of choice butter. Now figure the dif¬ 
ference in the net proceeds of one cow, and you will be astonished. It will 
make over ten dollars per cow,-or $10,000,000 on 1,000,000 cows. I have not 
a doubt that the dairymen of the State of Illinois lose by bad management 
of their cows and the bad management of the manufacturers, $5,000,000 
every year. 
Thus now if our associations can suggest, and the dairymen improve by 
their suggestions so that one-half the above sum be saved, we are amply 
paid for all our time and effort. 
C. C. Buell had no figures; he coincided in the main with 
Mr. Boies; he thought it might be possible to make a pound 
of butter from twenty-three pounds of milk. The cows in 
the Northwest, as a whole, are “ scalawags;” they are not 
what they ought to be; breeds have mud to do with it; must 
look to improved methods of manufacturing; in New York 
the factory system was carried on with poor apparatus and 
no conveniences; if poor in that old State what must ours be 
in a new State? Many improvements can yet be made in 
buildings, apparatus, and breeds of cows, all of which will 
tend to improve our interests. 
No. 8—“ The best and cheapest feed to keep up the supply 
of milk during the summer drought,” was called for, and S. 
W. Kingsley said he believed sowed or drilled corn or Hun¬ 
garian grass the best article of food to keep up the milk dur¬ 
ing a dry time; this was the cheapest and most convenient 
for the farmer to resort to; he fed bran and meal all summer; 
