ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 1 3 
vheat growers and dealers have, and they are likely to have as bitter 
m experience before they get through with their deal. Because corn 
s a little high and scarce is no reason why butter should be so dear 
vhen the pastures this tall have been so unusally good. The thing 
las been overdone. The dairymen would better think it over. 
The subject has a very direct bearing on the movement for the pro¬ 
hibition by State and National enactments of the making of counter¬ 
ed and adulterated butters. With what grace can the dairymen ask 
jovernment to stop the manufacture of butterine and olemargarine— 
vhich, though cheap, are alleged to be perfectly wholesome—when 
he price of pure butter has been advanced beyond all sense or reason? 
\t 40 cents, butter is beyond the reach of the vast majority of the 
people living in cities and towns, who can afford to pay no such price. 
\11 the laboring population, mechanics, and the salaried class gener- 
illy find the present price much too high—more than their incomes 
varrant paying. They must either stop consumption or use cheaper 
grades, most of which are mixed or compounded. In this fact will be 
bund the secret of the vast development of the manufacture of spuri- 
>us butters in the last two years. If genuine butter were, say, 25 
:ents a pound, the people would very readily detect the spurious, and 
nany wouldn’t touch it at any price who are now compelled by stern 
lecesity, when they buy their butter, to * 
Be to its faults a little blind— 
Be to its virtues very kind. 
The same editor or his associate a short time ago, found the price 
)f corn too high, and created quite a breeze about the same. He also 
ound the price of his beef steak too high, soon after and then ordered 
fis reporter out to find the cause. The reporter made advances in 
hat direction, and found the cause to be that it was so good. And we 
vould say that tJBe reason for the present price of butter is that it is 
o good. 
SILOS AND ENSILAGE. 
J. H. BROOMELL, NORTH AURORA. 
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Some thirty years ago a Frenchman by the name of M. Auguste 
joffart, a member of the Central Agricultural Scociety of France, 
nd a man of wonderful perseverance, commenced a series of careful 
xperiments looking toward the preservation of green food for stock, 
lis idea was that any food plant taken at the time of its blossoming, 
ontained its maximum amount of the nutritive elements, and that the 
reservation of such plants by desiccation or drying, resulted in the 
dss of a good precentage of the food principle of the plant. To be 
onvinced of this is only necessary “to cross a meadow at the time 
vhen the new-mown grass is undergoing desiccation in order to re- 
ognize that it is losing an enormous quantity of its substance that ex¬ 
hales in the air in agreable odors, but which if they remained in the 
>lant, would serve as a condiment, facilitating digestion and assimila- 
ion.” With many failures and at times partial success he at last in 
873, came out triumphant in the discovery of a method which prom¬ 
ts to overturn the whole system of stock-feeding, and which has 
