120 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



PROPER EQUIPMENT FOR PROFITABLE DAIRY 



FARMING. 



Hugh G. VanPelt, Editor KimbalFs Dairy Farmer. 



"I have been here since yesterday afternoon and I have 

 heard much about dairying. The man v^ho spoke first after I 

 reached here gave a part of the speech which I had prepared, and 

 those who have spoken since have just about given all of it. 

 (Laughter). 



The subject assigned to me is "Proper Equipment for Pro- 

 fitable Dairy Farming." Your secretary has kindly said to me 

 that he would be very glad if I would talk to you about the 

 fundamental principles of dairying, about the man who milks 

 cows on the farm and who desires to do better and anticipates 

 that he will build up his herd and farm, so no doubt some of 

 the things that I shall say will not interest you who have built 

 up your herds to the point where they are really profitable. 



I realize that going into dairying, or the building up of a 

 profitable dairy farm represents difficulties, and the same sort 

 of problems as the building up of any other profitable business. 

 Any man is fortunate indeed if he goes into a business as a 

 young man and by the time he reaches the age of gray hair, finds 

 he has made a real success of his business so that he can retire. 

 This applies to all walks of life. 



Now, there are certain fundamental rules and principles 

 in any line of business that must be followed if we are to make 

 a success of that business. There is no business but what de- 

 mands study. There are certain fixed rules and principles which 

 if learned, observed and followed will result in the kind of bus- 

 iness we desire to build and of which we may be proud. I think 

 there is no line of business on earth to which this statement ap- 

 plies more completely than it does to farming, and especially 

 dairy farming. 



Now I know that all over the state of Iowa, largely over 

 the state of Minnesota, all over Illinois and Indiana and other 



