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these country districts and bring to them a school that fit our boys and 

 girls for life. That is what education should mean, and that is what we 

 must do. [Applause.] 



FRIDAY MORNING SESSION. 



February 24, 1922, 9 o'clock A. M. 

 Male Quartette Swedish Lutheran Church. 

 Invocation Rev. R. W. Lindsay. 



PRESIDENT MANN: The ultimate end of nearly all the crops that 

 we grow is human nutrition, whether it be cotton, which is two-thirds ulti- 

 mately human nutrition, or whether it produces wool, or all the other crops, 

 either directly or indirectly, they ultimately reach the human stomach as 

 food. We have now come to the time when we must give consideration to 

 the economic production of human food. No forms of food which reach the 

 human stomach in so palatable and so nutritious form as dairy products, and 

 when we want to study on the economies in producing dairy products we go 

 to Iowa and get Professor Kildee to come and tell us about it. Professor 

 Kildee: 



REDUCING DAIRY FARM COSTS. 

 (Prof. H. H. Kildee.) 



MR. PRESIDENT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: It is a pleasure for me to come 

 over to Illinois and meet with our neighbors who are interested in the same 

 problems that we are interested in. You people are facing about the same 



conditions, you are meeting about the same 

 situation that we who are farmers in Iowa are 

 attempting to meet at the present time. 



Your president, Mr. Mann, has very nicely 

 set before you the situation and given me a 

 very nice foundation upon which to build. In 

 coming before you this morning it is not my 

 purpose to attempt to advise you. I know 

 how people in any line of business look upon 

 advisers. In regard to the agricultural situa- 

 tion what you need to do at the present time is 

 to profit by the experience of other men who 

 are leaders in successful business farming. 



A few years ago during the war I was 

 located in the state of Minnesota, and one day, 

 after attending a dairy meeting, I was sitting 

 in the lobby of a little hotel waiting for the 

 evening session. There was a traveling man 

 sitting near the stove not far from me. He 

 was not an average traveling man, I would 

 say he was not up to the stand'ard, but this 

 man was attempting to tell everyone in the 

 room just what was wrong with our conditions, 

 just why potatoes, corn, meat and everything 

 else was so high, and he was blaming everything upon the farmers. He said 

 the farmers were letting the potatoes rot to keep the price up. He knew 

 everything about everything that was to be known, evidently. A good, solid, 

 prosperous looking farmer sitting near stood it as long as he could and 

 finally he turned to this man and he said: "I may not know as much about 

 the general situation as you profess to know, but I can tell you how to bring 

 this war over in Europe to a close inside of thirty days." The traveling man 



Prof. H. H. Kildee 



