106 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



old age, and if you and I get the most out of our life we have got 

 to follow along certain lines. If we make our lives of the most 

 value to ourselves and our families, while we talk about money 

 being the root of all evil, we do need it in our lives. We want 

 pleasant surroundings that we may be able to give those boys and 

 girls better conditions, better education to broaden their lives, and 

 it requires a certain amount of this world's goods to do that thing, 

 and it is a duty that each one owes to himself that he shall pro- 

 vide against the day of sickness, and if we do it in the dairy busi- 

 ness we must do it from the profit, and the profit in your business, 

 my farmer friends, means exactly the same thing as in any other 

 man's business. 



Profit is the difference between what it costs us to produce 

 and what we sell those products for. Every man ought to keep 

 two propositions in sight, and I want to state those, if you do 

 not agree with me let me know. I want you all to start with me. 

 I maintain that the first thing is that we all want to sell as many 

 dollars worth off our farm as we can that will carry with it the 

 largest amount of profit. 



The second thing is that we want to maintain or increase 

 the fertility of our soil so that we may go on each year selling 

 more dollars worth. Does any one take issue with me on that? 

 It might seem that some men would because I have been traveling 

 up and down this state, as well as my own and adjoining states 

 because it seems that some men have no record for this thing. 



We hear about keeping the boys on the farm. I have a boy 

 in my home, and it is my ambition that that boy shall stay on that 

 farm. I want him to think of it as a farm that his father and 

 mother have put in their best endeavors to keep it. I want that 

 boy to be a broad intelligent boy. I must persuade him that I 

 have made a success of that farm and that I have been able to 

 provide against my old age. You must persuade that boy that 

 you are leaving that farm so that he can surround himself and 

 family with some of the pleasant things of life. I am satisfied 

 if we are to successfully maintain the fertility of our farms that 

 we must adopt certain fines. Now I will admit that a man can 

 use commercial fertilizer, but is there any man here that wants 



