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og ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
Now, when we come to compare this system with the so-calle 
associated dairying, we may have a more difficult task to figure thl 
dollar on the side of the Fairlamb plan. And as this Convention wan- 
solid facts, and nothing else, we’ll make the comparison, drawin 
somewhat from our own experience in both branches of butter mall 
ing, and somewhat upon the experience ot others, hirst, we woull 
say to the farmer that has no taste for diversified tariffing, and wantl 
an excuse to goto the town or factory every morning, that some d 
the items entering into our calculations will figure for naught. Thj 
farmer carrying milk to the creamery expects if he has not alreadl 
sold, $1.50 per 100 lbs. for six months commencing with October 
Let us see what this farmer would have done had he sold cream in 
stead of milk. First, he would have got four and a half guages cl 
cream to the one hundred pounds of milk. This cream at the aver ad 
paid in Northern Illinois—27 cents—would have brought $1.22 
value of skimmed milk per 100 pounds, 25 cents ; cost of carryinl 
milk to creamery per 100 pounds, 10 cents—leaving 7 cents per id 
pounds in favor of selling cream. In the item of carrying milk to tl 
factory, I think it will be conceded that ten cents is about what it 
worth to carry milk the average distance. In the matter ol fixing! 
price upon the skimmed milk there would be a greater chance fcl 
difference, and without experimental tests to guide us in this matte! 
we arrive at conclusions somewhat from our own experience, an 
largely from the experience of others. Many dairymen of Knc 
County, Ill., will tell you that one hundred pounds of skimmed milk 
worth as much as a bushel of corn to feed. Not to feed alone, but ; 
one explained by supposing a case. He said : “ If I had twenty stoc 
hogs to fatten, and one hundred bushels of corn to feed, then I wou. 
think that I were making money to exchange twenty bushels of rr 
corn for 2,000 pounds of skimmed milk, and feed them the eigh 
bushels of corn with the 2,000 pounds of millk. I am sure I coufl 
make more pork, and in less time than I should, to have fed tl 
whole 100 bushels of corn with water.” Another said: “ I am mill 
ing fifteen cows, and raising twelve of my best calves. I take abo: 
two-thirds of the skimmed milk together with some oil meal, ar| 
raise calves that make as good yearlings as those of my neighbor! 
who let their calves suck the cows. The other one-third of the mill 
I feed to six brood sows, with an average of six pigs each. And by thj 
mode of management I think my milk worth thirty cents per or 
hundred pounds.” My individual experience leads me to place tl 
price of skimmed milk at twenty-five cents per 100 pounds, wffi 
used to feed young stock. It will be conceded by all that in order 1; 
give calves or pigs the proper start in life, they must ha\e mill 
These calculations would place the dollar on the Fairlamb sid 
These conclusions anticipate good management in all the details ^ 
the gathered cream plan, and so does it need close managemeut 
the butter and cheese factory to wring out $1.50 per 100 pounds fjj 
milk for the six winter months. The proportion of failures in crear 
eries are likely larger in the Fairlamb creameries than in the other; 
for the reason that our plan of working is new, and some time ar 
patience is required to be able to successfully operate creameries upc 
