170 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



dinarily speaking, when we are talking of the feeding value with- 

 out specifying particularly that we referred generally to its 

 ability to add to the animal weight. 



THE ADVANTAGES OF DAIRYING. 



J. E. SPICER, EDELSTEIN, ILL. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: — 



I suppose all men, both old and young, when about to enter 

 upon the pursuit of farming, use, or try to use, their best judg- 

 ment as to what branch, or branches, of that business is best 

 calculated to carry out the object they have in view, whether 

 that be for pleasure, health or profit. 



If purely for pleasure one would naturally take to that 

 branch or branches of farming, which he or she would most 

 delight to see developed without much thought as to the finan- 

 cial outcome of the undertaking. But as so few who are able 

 to do so are inclined that way, and my own experience, of over 

 thirty years' having had more to do with the financial, rather 

 than the purely health and pleasure part of the business, I will 

 devote what little time I may occupy mainly to that side of the 

 question. 



Not that I would for a moment underestimate the real and 

 all important value of health and pleasure, for I fully believe 

 that both may be as honorably and effectually secured in the 

 dairy as in any other business, aud with these two stricken out 

 our lives would be but drudgery and a howling wilderness (so to 

 speak) for us. However much people may differ as to what 



