82 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



ADDRESS OF PROF. J. D, JARVIS, AT SESSION HELD 



AT NORMAL UNIVERSITY, CARBONDALE, ILL,, 



JANUARY 26, 1916. 



Ladies, Gentlemen and Fellow Students : I am glad to be 

 with you today because I feel that I am one of you, a little old- 

 er in years but still I am a student just the same. 



We have had some excellent talks regarding the dairy in- 

 dustry and what it means to a community. I believe in the phil- 

 osophy that you cannot interest a man or woman in a person, 

 business or an association unless you can, in some way, show 

 them wherein they will receive some benefit. This is true with 

 the dairy business, you cannot get men or women to take an 

 interest in the dairy business until you can show them that they 

 will in some way be benefited. 



It is said that agriculture is the backbone of this nation, 

 that when the farmer is successful then all other businesses will 

 be successful; when the farmer is not successful, then all other 

 businesses will not be successful. You have had that clearly 

 demonstrated to you during the last year and one-half. While 

 the great nations of Europe are at war, the farmers of the 

 United States are receiving excellent prices for their produce, 

 and they as a class, are prosperous. Their prosperity is felt iii 

 all lines of business. 



Wliile agriculture is the backbone of this nation, we feel 

 that dairying is the backbone of agriculture or it is ''its most 

 essential feature." When the farmer who has tried to get rich 

 by grain farming or cattle ranching, fails, adversity compels 

 him to turn to something which will at least make him a living. 

 Dairying will do that, and is that ''make a living first proposi- 

 tion." 



If you study the evolution of agriculture, you will find 

 grazing, or ranching, on the cheap fertile, sparsely populated 

 lands. This was true of the old world and also true in this 

 country, and when transportation companies, conveyances of 

 one sort or another, brought more people to these countries, 

 the land enhanced in value and grazing and cattle ranching 



