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part of the journey was taken after night. It was one of those 

 trains with a day sleeper, that is, you can sleep if you want to, 

 and sleep if you can. There were several passengers, and we 

 did not arrive at our destination until after midnight, and there 

 was a man sitting in the back end of that car that got to sleep 

 before any one else, and he did not let anybody else sleep at all. 

 Now, we have that man with us tonight, and he is going to talk 

 to you next. I will not tell you who it is, but I will introduce 

 Mr. C. D. Smith, of Michigan. 



THE VALUE OF CORN FOR MILK PRODUCTION. 



PROF. C. D. SMITH. 



Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Iowa Dairy Association, Ladies and 

 Gentlemen — I am glad, at the outset, to obey the command of our Governor^ 

 Fred. M. Warner, himself a dairyman and cheese manufacturer, and to 

 extend to you the best wishes of the Michigan association, of which organi- 

 zation the Governor is president. Michigan has deemed it wise to select as 

 its chief executive a man who thus filled the ofiSce of president of its dairy 

 association, and Iowa might follow her example with profit. 



It is good for a man to travel occasionally, to see what others in his line of 

 work are doing, and it is a great pleasure to me to visit Iowa, the banner 

 corn State of the Union, to note your methods and results and to carry back 

 to my own State valuable lessons for our farmers. 



It is no light matter to be the banner State in this great Union in any line. 

 In coming to Mason City from central Michigan, I have traversed as great a 

 distance as separates the most widely divided of European capitals. I have 

 passed, in that journey, as many hives of human activity, as many great 

 manufactories, as many great marts of commerce, as many schools and insti- 

 tutions of learning, and better than all, as many happy homes as I could 

 find in any journey of similar length in any part of the world. Indeed, I 

 have passed the boundaries of many autonomous states, yet no lexicon has 

 been required to interpret a varied tongue, no customs officer has inspected 

 my baggage, nor uniformed inquisitor demanded my passport. No officer 

 has hindered my going in or coming out. Though organized in different 

 states we are one people, and owe our first allegiance to one government, 

 citizens of one glorious Republic. May the day be far distant when a man 

 shall consider it a greater honor to belong to any State, no matter how rich 

 or delightful, than to be an American citizen, at once a citizen and a king. 



Although strongly tempted to burden this paper with many statistics to 

 show how far the wealth of this country is predicated upon the corn plant 

 and its products, I am going to refrain altogether and shall pass at once to 

 a discussion of the conversion of corn into wealth through the avenue of the 

 cow. I must stop long enough, however, to call your attention to certain 

 dangers which threaten the State because of the ease with which corn may 

 be converted into cash. 



