ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 47 



DAIRYING AND STOCK RAISING. 



J. G. SPIC ER, EDELSTEIN. 



Dairying and stock raising, or dairying as compared with stock raising 

 minus dairying, I take to be the subject on which our honored secretary 

 wishes this paper to treat. An exhaustive discussion of the greatest indus- 

 try in the United States, if not in the world, must not be expected of one of 

 my ability, time and data at hand from which to draw such figures and in- 

 formation as the magnitude of the subject would seem to demand. But I 

 am reminded right here that this great* industry is still in the hands of the 

 common people. 



There are but a few dairy kings, princes or magnates, comparatively 

 speaking, in our ranks, but our coun try is dotted here and there, and in some 

 parts thickly so, with heroes, noble men and women, who for a life time 

 have put their best thought, energies and muscle into the development of 

 an industry which is of first magnitude in importance, either financially or 

 beneficially to the human race. And the fact that the business is in the 

 hands of the common people should stimulate every individual, great or 

 small, learned or unlearned, connected with this business, to add his or her 

 mite to the uplifting and rightly developing of those principles, and that 

 work which, in his God-given sphere, we may find for our hands and heads 

 to do. Success or failure in our lives depends largely upon the faithfulness 

 and painstaking with which we do the common duties of every day life. 



In reading a sketch of the life of John Newman (whose brother I may 

 term as one of the main spokes of the wheel on which this association 

 moves), who, as the Times -Herald of January 1, is pleased to style "The But- 

 ter King," whose aggregate cow is seventy miles long, and his butter ship- 

 ments for a year would build a fence around the great Pyramid. I was im- 

 pressed with the fact, so easily read between the lines, that as the founda- 



