SIXTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART V. 413 



Mr. Morck : In New York state a certain company of Mr. 

 Gordon's says that no silage shall be used for the two million 

 quarts of milk shipped into New York City, so that is even 

 worse than our friend Professor Smith's case. 



Mr. Wentworth : We will have to form a silage trust in 

 this state and let them in on the ground floor. 



Governor Hoard has been preaching the gospel of dairying 

 for so many years we look upon him as a prophet and example, 

 and over in Iowa I am told that we have not a dairyman in the 

 state but who have been jogging along in the good old fashioned 

 way and laying aside twenty-five or thirty million dollars a 

 year as pin money from the old cow, and the idea I had was 

 that if Governor Hoard got his men to dairying and dairying in 

 the right way, we could go over there and get a lot of inspira- 

 tion from practical observation. 



I like those papers that we get there; I like those rich, juicy 

 editorials in which he tells about alfalfa and every thing of that 

 kind, and I believe in them. I believe Governor Hoard can do 

 these things, I believe that Scandinavian is doing it right along 

 up there, but I want to get a little inside information from Mr. 

 Gillette as to what the average fellow in dairying in Wisconsin 

 is doing, and compare those things with the "slipshod" methods 

 we have been employing over here. 



I think in the course of two or three years we will have 

 silos all over Iowa, we are going to be dairyman, and I look 

 for salvation to come right from the efforts of this association 

 and Mr. Shilling in those meetings. I liked the idea that you 

 expressed yesterday, Mr. Chairman, in your address, about 

 getting two or three of the best patrons down here. I liked the 

 idea Mr. Shilling and Mr. Keiffer inaugerated here of getting up 

 creamery associations and picnics. I have been to picnics this 

 summer where there have been as high as four or five thousand 

 people and Mr. Shilling, Mr. Wright or Mr. Keiffer have been 

 there and have talked to those people and you never saw parched 

 corn fields in '94 that absorbed the rainfall the way those peo- 

 ple absorbed the talks that were given them. In every com- 

 munity where we have had those meetings, they have built 

 silos and have gone into better dairying. I know men that 



