. Annual report of the Illinois State Dairymen's Association. Illinois State Dairymen's Association; Dairy farms; Dairy farming. FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 79 ADDRESS OF MR. T. A. BORMAN, AT SESSION HELD AT NORMAL COLLEGE, CARBONDALE, ILL., JANUARY 26, 1916. Mr. Chairman, Young Ladies and Gentlemen: The hands from the young women did not come quite as strong as I would have been pleased to have seen them. I suspect there are young ladies who have milked cows who live on the farm who did not raise their hands. I find that in every community there is a feeling among the men folks as well as
. Annual report of the Illinois State Dairymen's Association. Illinois State Dairymen's Association; Dairy farms; Dairy farming. FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 79 ADDRESS OF MR. T. A. BORMAN, AT SESSION HELD AT NORMAL COLLEGE, CARBONDALE, ILL., JANUARY 26, 1916. Mr. Chairman, Young Ladies and Gentlemen: The hands from the young women did not come quite as strong as I would have been pleased to have seen them. I suspect there are young ladies who have milked cows who live on the farm who did not raise their hands. I find that in every community there is a feeling among the men folks as well as among the women folkf^ that dairying is not a woman's job. It is a woman's job—that is my contention; that, except for the cows actually milked by the women of the United States on the farms on which dairy cows are kept, the dairy business of this country would be in a mighty sad plight. Dairying is a woman's job, but it is not the job for fihe women that it ought to be. It should be more dignified tjlian it is at the present time. There is no drudgery in dairying if the cows kept on the farm are good cows. It has been my ob- servation that drudgery is attached to a job only in proportion as that job fails to pay well for the effort given it. If dairy- ing is profitable, if it is the kind of dairying we must have in this country to accomplish the results as referred to by previous speakers, we must have profitable dairying, and with that sort of dairying there will be no drudgery. The nearest to a break between my mother and my wife was over the number of pounds of milk in the milk pails. It was whether the cow my wife was milking gave sixty pounds of milk or sixty-one. If it was sixty-one pounds, it was just a little in excess of the cow my mother was milking—that was the point of contention. When you get this dairy business down to the point where you are watching the production of every day and that cow is giving milk for the feed and labour! consumed, there will be that
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