ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



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understand that he has not one scholar to teach how to fiake cheese when 

 he ought to have many. 



You can't induce young men to learn any busines if they have to go 

 to another state to find employment. They have to go to other states 

 because there are not factories enough at home. 



1 will now mention another reason why we do not have more factories 



I will now mention another reason why we do not have more factories 

 in Illinois. 



You propose starting a cheese factory in some rich farming districts 

 in Illinois, and the reply comes, " We can't keep cows on our land. We 

 can raise 50 to 60 bushels of corn per acre, but you must go where the 

 land is poor to start your factory." 



I think you made a mistake. Land that will raise so much corn will 

 surely produce more grass than this soil, consequently produce more milk. 

 Again, land that is cultivated year after year will soon run out, I do not 

 care how rich it may have been to start with. On the other hand, if you 

 go into the dairy business, make cheese or butter, they will soon have a 

 piece of new land to plow and get as much off of 30 acres as has been 

 reaped from 40, and with less work to keep the weeds down. 



A third reason is, we can't get farm hands to work on a dairy farm. 

 They do not like to milk. I will agree with you there to some extent. 

 One reason is that they do not want to work in the field until sundown, 

 as a great many men want them to do, and then have to milk from six to 

 ten cows, take care of their horses, get their supper, and by that time it 

 would be ten o'clock. Then they could go to bed to rest awhile, turn over, 

 get up and go to milking the cows again. I do not blame them for not 

 wanting to work on a dairy farm. Get them up at a reasonable time in 

 the. morning, so that all necesary work can be done and get in the field 

 by 6:30 or 7 o'clock. They will do you a good day's work. Quit at 5 

 o'clock, put the teams in the barn, have supper and then milk. Then their 

 work is done for the day, and they can spend an hour talking and get to 

 bed at a 'reasonable hour. If this routine for the day is carried out, I do 

 not think you will have any trouble to get hands to work on a dairy farm. 

 I know this to be a fact, as I have seen it tried. 



Again, turning to our subject, some will say, we are afraid we will 

 overstock the market, and there will not be a demand for cheese. Well, 



