356 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



cans per day for every quarter section of land) yet I have lived 

 with this people for 30 years, and as a matter of fact, easily veri- 

 fied, no other department of life of which I am cognizant can 

 measure with it in its deplorable ignorance. Here they are a 

 great colony of people with no literature with which to inform 

 themselves, and still producing a food for human beings to live 

 upon. 



''Another feature is, not one dairyman in twenty has any- 

 thing like a true conception of the production of his individual 

 cows. I think now of no one who is making tests to know if 

 each cow is profitable, or the reverse. Again, where great ignor- 

 ance such as this prevails, also great filth goes hand in hand." 

 Think of that from one of the best dairy regions in the state. 

 Do not these conditions show a waste of energy that calls for a 

 campaign of education? 



The Means of Higher Living. 



Money does not make the man, and yet it has been found 

 impossible to administer to the better man until his physical en- 

 vironment is comfortable and respectable. The highest success 

 comes to the man from intelligent, conscientious effort. Strict 

 laws govern our achievement. If a man can double his earnings 

 by simply developing and using his brain power, and conserving 

 his energy so that he can live respectably and bring up his chil- 

 dren to their highest usefulness, this is a conservation of natural 

 resources of even greater consequence than preserving our for- 

 ests and our mines. 



The Dairyman's Wasted Energy and Loss of 757 Million Dollars. 



Why is the average annual production of the cows in the 

 United States 150 pounds of butter fat, causing a loss of $1.40 to 

 the owner, instead of 325 pounds of butter fat, making a profit of 

 $40.40 annually — the point to which some dairymen in Illinois 

 have increased their grade herds by simply putting intelligence 

 into the business, and this is by no means the maximum of what 



