124 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



and that the common milk should go into the common 

 vat. There is a certain injustice in that. There were 

 certain cows in those common herds that gave just 

 as rich milk as the others, but we had to strike some 

 line, We conduct the business in that way. I have been 

 trying to instruct those people for twenty years to improve 

 their fortunes by improving their cows. That man of 

 whom I spoke brought his herd of cows up from one hun- 

 dred and fifty pounds to three hundred and fifty-seven ; 

 and he did it first by breeding, secondly by feeding, and 

 thirdly by handling. Those three things, as I said last 

 night to you, constitute the sum total of the dairy gospel. 

 But these men that we are bothered with, these men who 

 keep back the salvation of God, these men who cause the 

 church to mourn, these men who will not attend the 

 dairy meetings, these men who refuse to be known as 

 dairy Christians, — I don't know of anything that will 

 move them, unless it is, as I said a few moments ago, a 

 funeral. Their eyes are set. I have given them up. I had 

 much rather take one of their boys. 



Now, we have a large number of Germans. Seventy per 

 cent of the population of my county is German. They are 

 of such quality and character that if we can get hold of them 

 it helps. I will give you one little story. About thirteen 

 or fourteen years ago a German came to me ; I will call him 

 Karl Streider. He came into my office and he said: "I 

 hear you talk so much dairy. I have got my sixty acre 

 land ; I get my milk, big milk, on that land, and I don't 

 know what I do. I feel I work, I work so hard, — mine 

 Gott, I can't help myself; and I think maybe if I was in 

 the dairy pczness that would help me a little." Well, the 

 simple, kindly appeal of the man touched my heart. I said, 

 " Karl, we will try ; we will take hold of it. There is always 

 good, hard sense to be used in making a man's fortune." 

 Karl said, "I have got me no money; I can't go into the 

 dairy pezness that way ; I can't buy this thing and buy that 

 thing." I said, "How many cows have you got, Karl?" 

 This is a simple story, commencing at hard-pan, and I want 

 it to carry a lesson. He said : " I have got nine cows, and 

 I sell my butter in the town to the store-keeper. He stick 



