. Annual report of the Illinois State Dairymen's Association. Illinois State Dairymen's Association; Dairy farms; Dairy farming. FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONVENTION 183 the first dairy meeting in a town, because if we did get dis- couraged we would be so most of the time. It is a surprise, but it is nevertheless true, that it is always difficult to get people, and especially farmers, out to hear men, who are efficient in the dairy work, talk about that line of busi- ness or talk about the improvement of the soil, and I presume it is the same in any line of farming. The farmer, more than any other cl
. Annual report of the Illinois State Dairymen's Association. Illinois State Dairymen's Association; Dairy farms; Dairy farming. FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONVENTION 183 the first dairy meeting in a town, because if we did get dis- couraged we would be so most of the time. It is a surprise, but it is nevertheless true, that it is always difficult to get people, and especially farmers, out to hear men, who are efficient in the dairy work, talk about that line of busi- ness or talk about the improvement of the soil, and I presume it is the same in any line of farming. The farmer, more than any other class of men, is content or has the idea that he does not need to be told about how to run his business. The busi- ness man in the city had that idea a few years ago, but every year you will find more lines of business organizing, and you will find more and more conventions of the various lines of business, more meetings where these men meet together and talk over their own line and get ideas from each other, and that will be true in the farming line. A few years will see a big change, a big improvement in the audiences who will appear when a dairy meeting, or a meeting in the interest of that line of farming is announced. The object of the Illinois State Dairymen's Association is entirely educational. The men who belong to that Association and who are the speakers at its meetings are men who are interested in the business and its development, they are the men who do the work without any pay at all, and there certainly isn't any chance for any political preferment or any other means of reward, their only reward is the knowledge that they are telling the farmer what dairying will do for his farm and for his family—they are doing a public service. The way to make money on a dairy farm, or any other kind of farm, is to get it organized on a business basis. It Is just the same as any other line of business, it has got to be organized and followed on a regular plan in order to make
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