THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. 47 



tern of management upon your farm you build up the fertility of 

 the soil so in ten years your farm is a hundred per cent better 

 than when you started. Then, and in that manner the people are 

 going to meet this responsibility that rests upon them. 



I have heard it said in times past the objection to it was that 

 it required labor and that it was a drudgery. This one lesson 

 every one ought to know, that there is nothing worth having in 

 this world that is not gotten at the price of labor. You cannot do 

 anything without labor, but we do not need to make the life of a 

 dairy farmer a drudgery ; have a system to it ; do not waste too 

 much time ; make every lick tell ; have your organization so per- 

 fect that you do not need to work eighteen hours out of twenty- 

 four. 



I am just talking at random here because I had not prepared 

 any set speech. I get so full of these subjects that I could talk 

 until you were tired and weary. 



I will announce at this time that aside from being connected 

 with the Dairy Association I am President of the Holstein 

 Breeders' Association and it would not be proper to make a Hol- 

 stein speech at a general dairy meeting because there may be 

 some Jersey fellows here who would be offended, or there may 

 be Guernsey fellows, but I will take the liberty of saying this, 

 we of the Holstein Breeders' Association who happen to be at 

 the head of affairs this year have had a great admiration as Hol- 

 stein men of this territory for what you have been doing, and 

 we decided at this meeting to have a state meeting of the Hol- 

 stein breeders, not to interfere with the State Dairy Association, 

 but after it is over, we could invite all men who own Holstein 

 cows and those who believe that they or their children want to 

 own Holstein cows to come to a meeting that will not interfere 

 with this dairy meeting and hear us talk and sing the praises of 

 the Holstein cow. 



After this meeting is over this afternoon, I suppose it will 

 be about 4 :30, we want every Holstein breeder that can come into 

 the town of Elgin to come in this corner and we will have a love 

 feast that is worth having. I thank you. 



