SIXTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART V. 403 



FRIDAY MORNING SESSION. 

 November 3, 1905.. 



Vice-President W. B. Barney in the Chair. 

 Meeting caled to order at 11 :i5 by the Chairman. 



The Chairman : I think our association has been particular- 

 ly fortunate this year in the large number of good addresses we 

 have been able to give you. Now because this is the last day 

 we would not have you think we have nothing left. In fact, 

 we have some of the best to come on this afternoon and this 

 morning, and I now have the pleasure of introducing to you a 

 gentleman who has perhaps done as much for the dairy interests 

 in Wisconsin and for the dairy cow as any other man in that 

 state, — Mr, W. J. Gillette, of Rosendale, Wisconsin, who will 

 address you. 



THE PATH OF THE COW. 



W. J. GILLETT, KOSEKDALE, WIS. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen. — I feel some little delicacy at 

 this time in saying anything upon the subject of dairying to the represen- 

 tative dairymen of the state of Iowa; a state that, according to our last 

 statistics, led any state in the Union in the production of butter, with a 

 yearly ri'oduct valued at over §14,000,000; a state, the number and 

 value of whose milch cows, ranks second only to the great Empire state 

 of New York; a state whose natural resources are unsurpassed by those 

 of any state in the Union; and a state that has attracted the attention 

 and won the admiration of every lover of agriculture. 



.1 come to you, however, from a sister state in whose agricultural 

 achievements we naturally feel a just pride; a state that also claims 

 some supremacy in the matter of dairy husbandry; and I come to you 

 with no apology to make for my love of rural life and the old farm; 



