134 THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



organizations of this world to-day. God bless the grange in that re- 

 spect to-day. It is a power behind the throne, thank God. 



Now I am in touch with the dairy cow because she is the foster 

 mother of the human race. Her milk is perfect food for the support of 

 human life. Now, here is her milk, her cream, her horns and her 

 hide, every portion of her body you can utilize for a purpose. The 

 dairy cow is the power which enables us to support our children, clothe 

 and educate them; she is a mortgage lifter; she is a public and private 

 benefactor. How is she treated as a rule for what she has tried to do 

 for the human family to-day? Often in the months of November and De- 

 cember she goes right out on the cold, frozen sod to lie there until 

 morning; oftener allowed to lie upon the cold floor during the winter 

 months without bedding. That is all wrong. It is a duty that dairy- 

 men owe to themselves and to their families to better that condition. 



About twelve years ago the milk production in the State of New York 

 was only 3,000 cows, and only 250 pounds of butter to a cow. Look 

 and see the strides we have made since that time. Inside of ten years 

 we have developed the milk flow, increased the flow over 1,400 pounds of 

 milk per cow in the State of New York and with it 700,000 dairy cows. 

 We think the people of the State of New York have every reason to 

 feel proud of the stride we have made. 



God in his wisdom created the lower animals in a troubled state for 

 us to develop intelligence; now if we are not intelligent we do not fill 

 the place God designed us to fill. Farmers, let us give this thing a 

 thought to-day. So many people in the different States are keeping 

 more dairy cows than they can afford, which runs them in debt and 

 brings general ruin. If to-day just half of the dairy cows were sent to 

 the slaughter and the balance were better kept and looked after and 

 more judgment used in feeding and treating, how much better it would 

 be for us all that are interested in this work. The dairy cow stands be- 

 fore man as an oper. book. We have the power to conceal our imper- 

 fections; the dairy c^w has none. 



Look at the well known Jersey cow that went to the front by making 

 963 pounds of butter in 365 days. Look at Pauline Hall, the well known 

 Holstein! Xo other cow 7 has produced 1,153 pounds of butter in 

 365 days. When the news struck Holland she lifted up her hands 

 and said, "America is ahead." Breeding is in its infancy and the end is 

 not yet. There is something for you to do. brother farmers, at the 

 opening of the twentieth century, that is to develop the dairy cow. What 

 has been .the trouble with the farmer so many years? Why have not 

 they given this dairy cow more thought? It is this: We farmers as a 

 rule are working too hard; we go to bed tired and get up before we are 

 rested, and when a man is physically exhausted his mind is mentally 

 impaired. You know it is true he cannot put his thoughts into action 

 and manage his business in such a way that it will be to his financial 

 good. You remember in your boyhood days it required muscle to 

 swing a scythe. Here at the opening of the twentieth century what of 



