ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. jg^ 



one.) It was because they were not educated in agriculture any bet- 

 ter. But as their sons educate themselves along these lines, they wilH 

 turn over and bring up the fertility of the soils and come out all right. 



I believe that in the future the young men will stay on the farm^ 

 where there is more need of them than in any store. It takes more^ 

 brains to handle a well-managed farm than any other position in this; 

 country. I really think that the whole thing in a nut shell is "educa- 

 lion.*' You can offer all the prizes you want to at conventions, but unless:; 

 you commence from the ground Ui3, with good strong cement foundatiom 

 to make it last, the improvement is not a lasting benefit. You remember 

 the five virgins with their lamps all ready and trimmed. Just think of 

 that boys. It means eternal vigilr)nce all the time. You cannot let up» 

 you must go right on. 



You have got to have a cow to produce milk. I don't care so mucla 

 about the breed. I believe that Brother Belden is just about as good a^ 

 dairyman as there is, the 1200 poand cow every time. I believe the vast 

 majority of renters in this state or any other state, will do better with the 

 general purpose cow. A cow from 1000 to 1200 pounds; that if she will 

 not give milk to more than pay for her keep, she will sell for more tham 

 she was bought for. 



The ideal dairyman of this st^ite, from a practical standpoint, was oia 

 the platform yesterday, Mr. Jud Mason of Elgin, and I tried to figure out 

 what his profits were, and before I got through, it scared me. I thought I 

 was not right. I made it that out of a farm of 285 acres. I will not figure 

 it out as an owner of a farm for so many of the farmers live in town, but 

 will figure it on the renter's basis. 



We will try and find out if he can afford to pay his rent, send his; 

 children to school, educate the whole family, girls as well as boys. Do- 

 mestic economy, we have to work on that line too. The country schools; 

 should be thinking of getting teachers for these questions. It won't doi 

 to be satisfied with teachers unle&s they keep up to date. They have 

 done the best they know how, but now the Normal schools are turning: 

 out teachers versed in domestic economy. 



