20 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



first calf will pay for the extra expense of searching. You will 

 never regret it. 



The State Experiment Station has very kindly agreed to 

 publish in a bulletin each year, all the tests of cows that have 

 produced 225 pounds or more of butter fat in twelve months. 

 This bulletin of performance will advise the dairymen of the 

 state where to secure bulls, as well as cows and heifers, out of 

 great producers. I cannot emphasize too strongly the import- 

 ance of each dairyman in the state making yearly tests of his 

 cows, under the supervision of the State Experiment Station, 

 and having the results of standard cows published in the Bulle- 

 tin of Performance, referred to above. 



We are all in the dairy business because we know there is 

 money in it and we like it, but let us not forget several nesessary 

 points. We must use our heads. We must run our dairy farms 

 more on the plan of factories and other commercial enterprises. 

 The work must be made profitable for the boys and girls. Do 

 not ask your girls to wash cans and pails without proper con- 

 veniences, or try to make good butter without pleasant and sani- 

 tary surroundings. Do not ask the boys to do the milking and 

 feeding w^hen they are tired out with an altogether too strenuous 

 day. They won't stand for it. Try to stimulate interest in 

 investigation and the study of raising calves and feeding cows. 

 Don't waste feed on unprofitable cows. Weigh the feed occa- 

 sionally and at stated periods weigh and test your milk. Most 

 of us are here at this convention because we want to learn more 

 about the dairy business. Let every man and woman try to 

 bring to the next dairymen's convention a man who does not 

 want to learn. 



It has been my opinion for some years that this State Asso- 

 ciation should organize a northern, central and southern dairy 

 society and aid each to hold annual meetings and that the Illinois 

 State Dairymen's Association should rotate its meetings so as 

 to meet with the three auxiliary associations at least once in 

 three years. 



The general assembly, I believe, will cheerfully give this 

 organization five hundred dollars annually, for each of these 



