158 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



ing. The development o£ the dairy farm is an evohition. The 

 highest degree of profitableness and satisfaction which comes 

 from the dairy farm is also an evolution which cannot be reach- 

 ed the first, second, third or fourth year. When you set about 

 to establish a dairy farm you are in fact establishing a factory, 

 an enterprise, just as the man who engages in the manufacture 

 of any article. He does not expect to reach the ultimate suc- 

 cess the first or second or third year, he looks into the future 

 to build up a business which he trusts his sons will like and that 

 they will perpetuate, and when he lays down the reins of the. 

 management that they will have a business that they can carry 

 on. Unless the dairyman takes that view of his new enter- 

 prise, the chances are that he will not succeed. It is not a year 

 in and year out business — you cannot be in the dairy business 

 on a profitable basis one year when the crops are poor, : >and 

 when the rains come and the sunshine and the year looks good 

 go into crop farming, and repeat with the dairy business. This 

 dairy business is a thing that we should look into with a view 

 of organizing a well-balanced farm operation. There are two 

 kinds of dairy farms the exclusive kind on which all the cows 

 are kept and where the farm, the whole enterprise hinges 

 around these cows and the crops grown are used to feed them 

 and everything else is lost sight of, requiring, if successful, a 

 highly specialized kind of dairying. 



It is the other kind of dairying of which I will speak and 

 which is the most practicable to farmers in Southern Illinois 

 and farther west. So we must frame up a scheme of well- 

 balanced farming with the dairy herd as the center in such a 

 way that you will distribute the labor throughout the season. 

 There is many a man, particularly on the farms farther west, 

 with whom it is a matter of hiring a lot of help during the busy 

 season and after that discharging the help and the work is done 

 by the farmer and his family and when the spring comes the 

 need for additional help is on again and we cannot get it. This 

 is avoided by the business men just as much as possible. We 

 must frame up in my judgment on this dairy farm, a scheme 



