156 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



I heard something else today; you were talking and talking forcefully 

 too, talking good 1 common sense, about a balance ration for your calves 

 and cows and 1 something was said about ration for human beings. I make 

 a plea that one of the greatest needs of the hour is that these mothers 

 and these girls who will be mothers, shall know quite as much, that is 

 all I ask quite as much, about a balanced ration for her child, or the child 

 that God shall give her, as you do about the balanced ration for your 

 Jersey cows. If this room was filled with housekeepers tonight, filled 

 with mothers — there is no one I like to talk to better, unless with a room 

 full of boys — I believe I could go through this room and ask every indi- 

 vidual mother if she knew the very best kind of body and brain sustain- 

 ing food to feed her boy, her fourteen year old boy that was in school and 

 growing just as rapidly as a boy can, that should sustain properly every 

 single function of that wonderful body and more wonderful brain, and I 

 believe if she was honest she would say, I do not. I would like to ask the 

 mother if she knew what best to feed that girl of hers, that was in the 

 last year of her school, doing her very best to keep up with her class and 

 trying to graduate at the end of the class year without breaking down in 

 health, and come out strong, rosy, and a robust girl, if she knew what to 

 give her to sustain every function of the body and I think she woulfi hon- 

 estly tell me, No. We feed the boy just what its father has to eat, but 

 you never feed the calf what its m oher has. You drink tea a great deal 

 yourself and you tell the children it is not good enough for the children; 

 you drink something yourself and tell your boy it is not good for him. 



I remember last winter I had the pleasure of traveling with the presi- 

 dent of our agricultural college, Prof. Snyder, and as we had to stop quite 

 a long time in one place waiting for the train he asked me to go over tb 

 the school. We went to a room where there were 15 to 20 boys, active 

 fellows and how hard they were trying to study. Boys that were always 

 behind in their classes; could not "study, and afterwards Prof. Snyder told 

 me how sorry he was for them. "What would you do with them?" I 

 asked. "What Iwould do with every other boy, I would give them an 

 industrial training, I would put them to work." I tell you I nave thought 



