64 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



aid of the Babcock butter fat test and a spring balance to weigh 

 the milk, the farmer can learn which cows are the profitable 

 ones. By disposing of the unprofitable cows, he can increase 

 the profits of his herd. From experimental data where a pure 

 bred dairy sire was used on a grade herd, the heifers produced 

 50 pounds more butter per year than their dams. 



It may seem almost impossible for each member here to 

 use this advice in his local community. The question that pre- 

 sents itself to you, "How can this be accomplished?" In al- 

 most every city and town in the United States, the business 

 men, bankers, merchants and even clergymen, belong to the 

 Commercial Club. The duty of this club is to promote business 

 in their city or town. They are willing to give a bonus to a 

 manufacturing plant to come to their city. Why? Because 

 this establishment will employ a number of men and women. 

 More men and their families in the city means more business 

 to the members of this Club. The polic}^ is all right and should 

 be encouraged but this same Commercial Club overlooks the fact 

 that adjoining the city are hundreds of manufacturing plants 

 that are inefficient and are not turning out the quantity and 

 quality of products they should and hence are not adding to 

 the community as much wealth as they might. These plants 

 are the farms and the machines are the dairy cows that will 

 take the feed produced on these farms and manufacture it into 

 milk. These farms can be brought up to a greater efficiency 

 by your Commercial Club becoming active in this work and es- 

 tablishing a department of dairy improvement. This depart- 

 ment should give advice relating to dairying, bring the farmers 

 together at picnics, judge dairy cattle and dairying products 

 and help the farmers in improving their stock by co-operative 

 community breeding. The butter fat records and breeding rec- 

 ords can be kept by an assistant to the Secretary of the Commer- 

 cial Club. The farmers that are in this co-operative breeding 

 association can pay their dues to him and the Commercial Club 

 will be more efficient to advance business in their locab commun- 

 ity. 



At Centralia, Illinois, the Commercial Club has taken in the 



