ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 3 g 
men on the other side, and will find it just as easy to ascer¬ 
tain then financial worth as that of a Chicago or New York 
man ; and unless we can get fair play from our men at home 
we can leave Chicago men out in the cold. 
In conclusion, I would express a hope that the present 
session of the State Dairymen’s Association may have its 
influence in favor of an increase of winter dairying, as well 
as for the making of better goods and a reformation in our 
ways of disposing of the same, thereby to encourage and 
foster the great industry of dairying. 
Question No. 6 —“ Will it be more profitable for the 
dairymen ol Illinois to follow dairying exclusively for the 
next few years, or diversified farming?”—was then taken 
up. 
C. C. Buell read the following paper on this topic ; 
C. C. BUELL’S PAPER. 
The apparent tendency of all industrial enterprise at 
the present period is toward specialties in production. It 
seems hardly necessary to take any time to prove this prop¬ 
osition, or even illustrate it. We see it in the spades we dig 
with, the hammers we pound with, the plows we use, the 
wagons we ride in, the clothes we wear, etc. The items of 
almost the entire list of manufactured products proceed 
fi om establishments which make specialties of some leading 
ai tide or articles, oo in merchandizing, and in professional 
Pursuits as well, when we look for the causes of this, we 
find some of them in the increased use of improved machin- 
cry, by which the various cheap moter powers are made to 
take the place of skilled manual labor, thus turning out a 
greatly increased number of articles designed to meet 
human want, at greatly reduced cost, and in a style, as a 
rule, much better adapted to please the taste. 
The cost of transportation has been made so small (as 
it should be with present facilities) that it matters little to 
the consumers whether an article is produced in Oregon or 
Maine. A general equalization of values has thus been 
produced so far as locality is concerned. The controlling 
elements in the problem of production have come to be, 
