DRY-FARMING CONGRESS, WICHITA, 1914 



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Address of Professor Potts 

 ORGANIZATION AS AN ESSENTIAL FACTOR FOR THE DEVELOP- 

 MENT OF THE DAIRY INDUSTRY. 



Organization is the keynote of success in the management of any 

 business. 



This is true whether that business be the administration of affairs in 

 the home, in the school, in the church, in the state, or in the nation. Unless 

 there is organization and a close coworking of the different phases or de- 

 partments of the business, the future success and development of the busi- 

 ness is not assured. 



It is absolutely essential in the administration of affairs in the home 

 that those who do the spending work in cooperation with those who do the 

 earning, else the spendings will be more than the earnings and the result 

 would be that the home would be bankrupt. In the state it is also essential 

 for the most efficient administration of the affairs of the state and the 

 legislature, executive and the department of justice work hand-in-hand; for 

 *f the legislative department enact the laws for the punishment of the of- 

 fenders of the law, also provides appropriations for enforcement of the 

 law, and either the department of justice fails to convict or the executive 

 department uses its clemency and either pardons or paroles, then the of- 

 fender is still free and the guilty one has not been punished. The work of 

 the legislative department fails because of lack of coordinate action in the 

 other departments in performing their duties. A nation does not undertake 

 a large project like the digging of the Panama Canal until it has worked 

 out a definite program under which the work of the project will be carried 

 out. 



A nation with a large standing army has the organization of that army 

 worked out, even to the minutest detail. At the head of each army corps is 

 the major-general, and under him are the colonels, captains, lieutenants; 

 and over each eight men is a corporal. From the major-general to the 

 corporal it is the duty of each officer and of each man under an officer to 

 do the right thing and do it at the right time. That is the reason an army 

 which is well organized, and with soldiers well trained, constitutes such a 

 strong fighting force as they do today. You may say, what has all this to 

 do with the subject under discussion, "Organization as an Essential Factor 

 for the Development of the Dairy Industry?" It is just this. The dairy 

 industry of the United States from the dairyman's standpoint is made up 

 of some 22 million dairy cows. These cows represent a small standing army 

 which produce the milk and dairy products for our nation. Each farmer who 

 owns eight cows is in command and control of them the same as a corporal 

 in the army is in control and in command of a squad of eight men under 

 him. There is no question but what the owner of these cows is as much in 

 command and in control as is the corporal in the military company. 



Now where is our next organization in the dairy industry? Fifteen to 

 twenty farmers make up a community. They own perhaps 100 cows. These 

 cows correspond to a company of 100 soldiers. Should there be a captain 

 over them ? In some dairy communities the dairy farmers say yes. They 



