ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 1X1 



good health and happiness really are, it should be the privilege, 

 if not the duty, of every one to get as much of both as possible 

 from day to day, not only for ourselves but for all with whom it 

 may fall to our lot to have to do. 



It has been well said that " We pass this way but once." 



Some thirty-six years ago, when I commenced doing busi- 

 ness with the farmers of the central part of this state, I soon 

 discovered that those farmers who always had ready money to 

 meet their obligations were most sure to be the men who, in 

 some way were condensing the products of the soil into beef, 

 pork, horses, cattle, butter, cheese, wool, etc., thereby greatly 

 reducing the expenses of shipping the products of the farm to 

 some distant market, and the farmer who did not have ready 

 money with which to meet his obligations was most sure to be the 

 man who raised grain and hauled the same, with all its bulk and 

 weight, to market; that market often being to the more prosper- 

 ous neighbor, who through some of the means above mentioned, 

 converted that grain into marketable products of very much less 

 weight. He often loaned the grain-man money, and took his 

 grain in payment, and made more clear money in the transac- 

 tion that the banker would have done by loaning the money at 

 twenty-per cent interest. 



Our honored secretary has asked me to present some thoughts 

 for your consideration on the Advantages of Dairying. I thank 

 him for the honor, and ask your patient consideration of 

 what I, in my clumsy way, may have to say, for it will consume 

 but a small part of as much of your valuable time to tell you 

 what I do know about this business as it would to tell you what 

 I do not know. 



In the first place, we all understand that for a man to succeed 

 in any branch of business, or industry, he must have some 

 adequate adaptibility, and inborn liking for that particular work. 

 This is especially true in connection with the dairy business, for 

 a slovenly, slack, happy-go-easy kind of a man, who only wants 

 six to eight months' work in the year, will be out of place, and 

 the ordinary advantages of dairying do not lie in that man's 

 pathway, and the business has no use for such a man, nor the man 



