ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 13 
So too the well-bred dairyman needs feed and training. The former 
he may get from books, periodicals, at conventions, and by visiting other 
dairymen. The latter must be acquired by actual experience, aided by keen 
peiceptives and a sound judgment. 
I find myself to-day in better condition for the race, as a dairyman, than 
I was one year ago; because, since then I have beeu fed by a Wanzer, a 
Boies, a Woodworth, a Tefft, a Dake, a Stone, a Morrow, a Wilcox, a Buell, 
a G-urler, and a score of others. And they are all liberal feeders. I have 
found much food too, in the columns of the Prairie Farmer , the Western 
Rural, the Live Stock Journal , the Country Gentleman , and the American 
Agriculturist , as well as upon the pages of Arnold’s American Dairying. 
Williard’s Butter Book, and Warring’s Elements of Agriculture. Some of 
this food I have been able to appropriate, to assimilate, and it has become a 
part of myself, so that to-day, having had in the months passed frequent 
exercise at the churn and at the butter worker, in the language of the 
horseman, I believe I can trot squarer and make better time than I could 
one year ago. 
If the sound of my voice, by some telephonic power, could be made to 
reach those who never attend dairymen’s meetings, I should dwell upon the 
benefits I received from the Elgin and Chicago conventions last winter. 
But this is unnecessary here. Let me then proceed, at once, to consider 
some of the essentials to financial success, a few of the details that need 
looking after, in order to ward oft financial failure. 
Failure costs almost as much effort as success. 
Failure is almost as tall as success. 
Failure is almost as strong as success. 
The words of Macawber, somewhat changed, will answer our purpose : 
Income, $100 per month ; expenses, $99.50 ; success. Income $100 per 
month; expenses, $100.50 ; failure. A single dollar added to expenses, 
income remaining the same, converts success into failure. A single dollar 
added to income, expenses remaining the same, converts failure into success. 
This then is the dollar that needs looking after, the dollar that persists in 
getting into the wrong scale; or the dollar that belongs in the income scale 
and doesn t get there; or the dollar that 'doesn’t belong in the expense 
scale and does get there. 
Come with me to the Cow-barn. Is the urine, liquid gold, escaping 
through the floor and forming stagnant pools beneath the barn ? There 
goes the dollar that might tip the beam in favor of success. Save the 
liquid and you may be able to liquidate vour debts. 
