68 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



a farmer or any man on his feet quicker than any one thing 

 he can do, it will also put confidence in himself and in his busi- 

 ness. 



In this dairy business, we are different from what you are 

 in the grain section. While 3^ou raise 3^our grain and don't put 

 anything back on your soil, you are virtually selling that farm 

 off by the wagonload, getting less and less each year. You 

 have to take the market price for your produce, while you take 

 it on a dairy farm you have two strings to pull on. You take a 

 dairy farm is a manufacturing plant, the farm and buildings are 

 the fixed capital, the dairy and tools the working capital, the ob- 

 ject is to make the working capital pay a dividend on the fixed 

 capital or the money invested besides adding to it in the shape o:^ 

 soil fertihty. The harder you run that 'farm, the better you 

 farm it, working your soil, growdng good crops, and the larger 

 the size of the crops you grow the more live stock you keep, the 

 more fertility you have going back on that farm. You can take 

 the average farm with careful farming and double its capacity 

 in a few years. You are building up the farm on the one side, 

 and dairy and live stock on the other. You can increase the 

 production of the average herd on a ratio of one to four, or 

 four times what it did on the average farm. 



A good many of you think that this dairy business is a 

 drudgery. You have got to get this business above drudgery. 

 You take a good farm and the growing of good crops and the 

 feeding of it to well bred animals and see them thriving and 

 developing, there is not a vocation on earth with greater ad- 

 vantages and with greater possibilities. We want to show these 

 young men that there is no vocation with greater possibiHties 

 than agriculture. We hear them say that you cannot pay for 

 farms these days and there is no show for a young man. There 

 is no better time for the young men than now. There is 

 always a way for the young man, for the right young man, the 

 opportunity is there if you can fill the bill. 



When you run a dairy farm, you have got to have good 

 cows, they have got to have good care and good feed, the right 

 kind of feed and the right kind of buildings,those four go to- 



