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to do everything perfectly. I didn't mean to say that therefore 

 we don't have to raise anything but cows. We have to feed the 

 cows. If you can do the four things you mention, you ought 

 to do it. You have got to have one thing to work and work it 

 well. 



A Member : — This thing, that they can have 10 or 12 cows 

 and they think they can get that milk to the factory and its all 

 right. But they attend to their business in the day and sometime 

 at night they come home and then they will milk the cows and 

 so on, their attention is not to the cow, it is on something else 

 and they are not paying the right kind of attention to the cow. 

 that is what we have reference to, I think. Last March I hauled 

 from seven different customers in my wagon and they represented 

 something like 75 or 80 cows. I produced more milk than all 

 the seven produced in the month of March. 



Q : — What county ? 



A : — Bond county. 



A Member : — This gentleman is speaking from Bond county, 

 and I am from Effingham county, in the beginning of this dairy 

 business. The farmers are getting educated in this farming 

 business. This generation is somewhat different from the older 

 gentlemen. I know that my grandfather broke up some land 

 which was bought very cheap and put it under cultivation some- 

 where in the neighborhood of forty years ago, and I have pro- 

 duced better crops right now on it than was ever produced in 

 those forty years, simply because it was the knowledge and the 

 study I took up. A farmer never can learn his work perfectly. 

 He farms from year to year, but never learns everything per- 

 fectly ; there is always room for improvement. But the farmers 

 of today, with the object lesson before them ought to look and 

 see they are the right kind of farmers. When you have started 

 on the right line, you must pay attention, when not looking after 

 the cow, to the corn, oats, etc., and at the same time you got to 

 milk your cows and pay attention to that. It is the advanced 

 education that the country is getting that is bringing this all on. 

 That is the way I look at it. If he is practical, he can have his 



