ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
be true as to butter and milk. Farmers everywhere will need and 
■ft ill use milk and butter for their own tables, and very many of them 
will continue to make butter for sale. As the country grows older, 
and the villages and towns grow larger, there will be a larger propor¬ 
tion of the whole population who will need to buy their supplies. 
Probably the milk supplies of cities and larger towns will continue 
to come mainly from those who make this a special business ; but 
there is no reason why thousands of general farmers should not 
make first-class butter, and, securing a local reputation for so doing, 
receive a good price for it. The leading hotel of the neighboring 
town must get its butter somewhere, as must its leading citizens, and 
there is no reason why a neighboring farmer should not supply them 
at something above the regular price. As good butter can be made 
m a private dairy as can be made at a creamery. That it is not so 
good as a rule, is clearly true, but it can be so made, and is by a good 
number. 
here farmers expect to make butter for their own use, and 
often to have some to sell, it is clearly only good economy to provide 
such facilities as will make it possible to have the product good, and 
very often it will be found little more costly to provide for making 
twice the quantity absolutely necessary. The great mass of the 
butter made in the country will long continue to be poor in quality, 
and most of it made during the summer. The shrewd farmer will 
adapt his course to meet these facts, and most often, it would seem, 
he can best do this by making good butter, if any, and by making 
most of what he will need to sell, in winter. The arguments in favor 
of winter dairying, where buter is to be made in factories, are much 
more generally admitted than they were a few years ago. But if 
they have weight in such cases, they have equal force in the case of 
the farmer. His cows must be kept in any event, and they ought to 
have nearly the same care whether giving milk or not. As a rule he 
will expect to have milk and butter enough for his own family, and 
if this much can be cared for, more can be. The special dairyman 
may be but little more busy in summer than at any other season, but 
for the general farmer midsummer is not only the time when it is 
most disagreeable to milk and care for it, but it is also the season 
when, both on the farm and in the house, most is to be done. It is 
easier to provide for the proper care of milk in cold weather than to 
guard against the ill effects of extreme heat. 
Another class, which may. well give increased attention to 
dairying, is that engaged in rearing beef cattle more or less largely. 
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