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pioneers in tlie breeding of Hhortliorns in this State. At tirst, we used 

 to have t.o go to Kentucky for our Sliorthorns. I remember hearing old- 

 Uncle Jerry Woodruff say that would probably always be the case be- 

 cause the wealth was there, the blue grass was there, and there were 

 other things that coufa not be approached in this State. I said I thought 

 he was mistaken. Today Kentucky is coming to Indiana for Shorthorns, 

 and they have l)een doing it for years. They are also coming here from 

 Illinois for these cattle. This shows iliat we are tlie hub of the universe, 

 as far as Shortliorn cattle are concerned. Our Ijrecders and exhiltitors 

 have been carrj-ing off the ribbons from all the States around us. This 

 proves that Ave have the best stock, and that we know how to lireed and 

 feed and take care of tliem. I liavc no lear but there will be a big 

 Indiana exhibit at the St. Louis I'air. There ought to be, and I feel 

 that there will be. 



I'resident Bowen: Of course you haxc not forgotten tliat the seed 

 that started the blue grass pastures in Kentucky came from Carroll^ 

 County, Indiana, or if not from Carroll County direct, it came from Battle- 

 Ground, Avhich is near there. 



We will now hear Professor William Hill, of Chicago University, on< 

 "My Experience with Eusdage." 



President Bowen: :Mi-. Hill is a lireeder of Shorthorns, and lias a 

 stock farm near Carthage, this State. Chicago has come to Indiana 

 for its professors, as well as for other things. 



Professor Hill: This is the tirst tiiue I have had the pleasure of meet- 

 ing with you, and I am afraid that what I shall say will not carry 

 the weight it would if I had been able to conduct my experiments in 

 a more systematic manner. I have been farming by proxy for some four 

 yeurs. Up to date I am still under .Mr. P.ryan's definition of an agricul- 

 turist. I am an agriculturist instead of a farmer. His di'finition is that 

 an agriculturist is one who makes his money in town and spends it in 

 the country, and a farmer is one who makes his money in tlie country 

 and spends it in town. Up to this time I have had to make my money in 

 the University. Like l>r. Quick. I get a good deal of plea.sure out of the 

 breeding of Shorthorns. I got into the business, in a way, accidentally. 

 The prolileiii (tf retaining soil fertility is a problem that appeals to nie. 

 .My wife liapiieiied to inherit sonu' land, and that land was not very 

 productive under the ordinary tenant method of farming. Although it 

 is good land it had not. under the tenant management, yielded more 

 than one or two per cent, on the investment. Five years ago I undertook 

 the management of the land. I began with a small herd of dairy cattle. 

 I had some Jerseys and some Shorthorns. I kept recitrd of tlie milk pro- 

 duced I»y both, and found for a year that my Shorthorns produced lifty 

 per cent, more milk tiian my Jerseys. I was selling milk by tlie iiuantlty.. 



