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48 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
the dollar necessary to become a member of this society. 
He thought, while McGlincy was reading of the immense 
amount of dairy products that had been sold on the board 
of trade, he would like to ask where the the money had all 
gone. If we had received it, what had we to show foi it ? 
Providence and the prosperity attending business had made 
times a little better. God had sent dry weather the past 
year that we might get good prices for our products. And 
the president had read how our exports to Europe had 
increased; all of which has had a tendency to better the 
markets; but would we dare to depend on these next year? 
Pie would digress a little: He believed in diversified farm¬ 
ing. His idea had been for years that a man could make 
it the most successful. He kept twenty cows on one hun¬ 
dred acres of land. Beside these he could raise a few calves 
and a few colts. He supposed that was called diversified 
farming. Kept a few turkeys and chickens and other fowls. 
Pie knew a man named Rohlston, who lived on Plenry 
Sherman’s farm, near Elgin, who sold 0 1,800 worth of sweet 
corn the past year, and spent every cent of it in buying 
feed to keep his dairy of seventy-five cows. His neighbor, 
Larkin, had made money in the dairy business he could 
make money at any thing. He would advise dairymen to 
go slow. It had been suggested that the business would 
get down to a solid basis before long, but if ever the busi¬ 
ness got lower down than it had been, God help us ! Some 
one had spoken about home consumption of dairy products. 
The trouble there had been that the dividends paid by the 
factories had been so low that the patrons couldn’t get 
money enough to buy cheese. It wasn’t all in skim cheese. 
It wasn’t all in under-consumption. What was to be done? 
Go into mixed farming ? He would advise again to go 
slow. Raise some calves, raise some pork, and if your 
cheese spoiled before you sold you had something to fall 
