744 BOAED OF AGRICULTURE. 



mother of invention, and whenever the mortgage becomes due on the Indi- 

 ana farms and the people can not hang onto their farms any longer, then 

 the dairy cow will be thought of and will become the leading industry of 

 the State. We have here a class of young men that consider a fast horse, 

 a rubber tired top buggy, and a pretty girl living, but they never spend an 

 lionest thought about how to malce a living. When you go to hire a 

 young man to work on the farm, his first question is, "Can I have my 

 horse fed?" When Saturday night comes you do not see any more of the 

 young man until Monday morning. These conditions must be changed. 

 It is a pity to see many of our farmer's sons that have been brought 

 up in good homes, Avheu they become of marriageable ages, they are 

 willing to marry and live in a dirty room iu a back woods, in a rented 

 house, and rent 10 or 20 or oO acres of corn ground. Do you know a 

 remedy for it? There can be but one. Wlienever the time comes that 

 people can not make a living off of the gi'ain farm they will start in 

 to keeping the dairy cow. In Brown County, the banner county of the 

 State, we have many such farms, and these farms can be kept profitably. 

 There is a wrong impression among the farmers in regard to this. I 

 know of people in Iowa who attend tlieir farm and milk 16 and 20 

 cows morning and night. It doesn't take long to milk that many cows. 

 People could do these tilings if tliey would only think they could. 



I thank you very much for your kind attention, and should like to 

 hear from someone else on this subject. 



(Applause.) 



President Johnson: We will now have to leave this subject and take 

 up the next one, "Oleomargarine." This subject was to be given by 

 Mr. Shilling, but he is not present I understand, so Prof. Van Norman 

 will give his ideas. 



Prof. Van Norman: I am very son-y ^Ir. Shilling could not be here 

 and present for himself the following thoughts. The law which forbids 

 oleomargarine to be sold as butter has been worth many dollars to the 

 dairymen tlie last year. 1 shall now read Mr. Shilling's letter: 



