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ress toward dairying is backward and your whole dual-purpose cow 

 for the dairy has gone back to beef. 



James J. Hill tells of riding for days with a companion calling on 

 farmers in Canada. It was winter and the farmers appeared to have 

 little to do. His companion inquired how they amused themselves 

 during the long winter evenings. "Well," said the farmer, "sometimes 

 we sit and think, but mostly we just sit." 



We don't need to go to Canada to find occasion for application of 

 this. The trouble with all of us — dairymen and buttermakers — is 

 that our thinking is backed off the boards by our sitting. 



What has been accomplished in a dairy way up to this time is due 

 to the efforts of comparatively few. And in this connection I am 

 reminded of the traveling man who left instructions at the village 

 hotel to be called at 3 a. m. He was called, and as he went out 

 noticed a placard hanging on the door of his room — a card showing 

 there had been a rap on his door at 3 a. m. as ordered, and down at 

 the bottom, in the handwriting, evidently, of the boy who awakened 

 him, were these words: "Many are called but few get up." 



And that's about the way in the dairy business. In this great field 

 hundreds of thousands are called to labor by active and intelligent 

 participation therein, but few, so few, comparatively, get up. The 

 held is large and growing larger. The opportunity is great and grow- 

 ing greater. There is a place for everyone and a profit for everyone, 

 no matter how many may engage in dairying. Those of us who are 

 in it should breed more carefully, feed more intelligently, work more 

 diligently, and whether we are actively engaged in dairying or cream- 

 ery work, there are a multitude of ways to help. At least we can 

 boost — 



Do you know that there's lots o' people 



Settin' round in every town, 



Growlin' like a broody chicken, 



Knockin' every good thing down? 



Don't be that kind of cattle, 



'Cause they ain't no use on earth. 



You just be a booster rooster. 



Crow an' boost for all you're worth. 



The President : The executive committee of our association felt 

 that the subject of creamery power was an important one, and 

 we have assigned that subject to ^Ir. Sadler, who will talk on ' ' The 

 Power Problem in the Creamery." 



THE POWER PROBLEM IN THE CREAMERY. 



E. T. Sadler, Waterloo, Iowa. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: The power problem in the 

 creamery is one that has been overlooked and neglected more than 

 any other phase of the creamery business despite the fact that it is 



