62 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



employed on the farms of America and probably would be, if 

 farm work was more stable. Generally men are employed dur- 

 ing the summer season and then discharged in the fall because 

 there is not enough labor on the farm to give them employment 

 during the winter. Short time positions attract only the lowest 

 grade of help. By making dairying the important branch of 

 farming, winter dairying will be carried on, cows will be fresh 

 in the fall and milked throughout the winter. They will return 

 at this time of the year greater profits because a higher market 

 price for butter fat and a greater percentage of cheap foods 

 like ensilage and hays will be consumed. Winter dairying will 

 help distribute the farm labor throughout the year and men and 

 their families will be employed by the year and be able to save 

 money and better themselves as well as return a profit to their 

 employers. 



Dairying will improve the educational, social and moral 

 conditions of the country. The tenants will be able to pay the 

 rent and will not be forced to move from one farm to another 

 as is the condition today. The one-year tenant means destruc- 

 tion to the farm. He does not keep the buildings in repair or 

 return the fertility to the soil. He tries to skim all the profits 

 from the farm, and the landlord tries to make him pay a large 

 cash rent in return. If dairying is carried on, silos and better 

 farm buildings will be built to take care of the crops raised, 

 more live stock will be kept per acre, and there wiH be a more 

 intensified farming. There will be that inter-dependence be- 

 tween the tenant and land owner from which both are benefited. 

 There will be better rural schools, better churches and the edu- 

 cational, social and moral conditions of the community will be 

 improved. 



If you compare the dairy sections of this country with the 

 non-dairy sections, you will see at once that the dairy farmer 

 has a well kept farm, fences in good condition, lawn mowed 

 about the house, flowers and shrubs decorating the lawn, barns 

 economically and substantially built. Inside the home you find 

 everything comfortable, homelike, a library, agricultural papers, 

 magazines, and you are impressed with the thought that the 



