66 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



Awhile ago I glanced over at Charlie Tilson and he 

 reminded me of an old colored preacher who was caught 

 one day loving up one of the sisters of his congregation and 

 the deacons got together and they decided to give the 

 minister a trial by jury, and the jury was formed and the 

 minister was asked to come before the jury and in coming 

 before the jury he brought the good book and he opened it 

 and read, 'The Lord is the Shepherd of the flock and the 

 shepherd of the flock took the lamb in his arms." The jury 

 was floored and they brought in the verdict, the next time 

 our worthy minister finds it necessary to take one of the 

 lambs of his flock ii. his arms that he take a ram lamb. 



While I was sitting in the high school room this after- 

 noon and enjoying the splendid program I did a little think- 

 ing as I relaxed, and as I looked through the audience it 

 amazed me that there was not nearly as many of the boys 

 and girls that had these calves distributed to them last year 

 as there should have been and not as many of their fathers 

 and mothers as there should have been. I had the same 

 experience a few weeks ago when I was here conducting 

 a dairy feeding bureau and at that time I do not believe 

 there was a boy there. That is unfortunate and I believe 

 as we plan other dairy meetings it might prove to have 

 greater effect to get the farm boys excused from school to 

 attend the meetings, and to make a greater effort to pull 

 them in. Now I know there is some information along the 

 line of feeding that they need. Those who were down here 

 Tuesday noticed that many of the heifers were underfed. 

 I know some of you will say we can do the same thing. I 

 think we are running safe at one end and losing a good deal 

 at the other like Abe and his brother. His brother said, 

 ''Why are you going up that way?" and he said, "To save 

 shoe leather," and he said, "Be careful not to tear your 

 pants when you are saving your shoes." 



An employe of the Big Four went to the office of the 

 President of the Big Four, with his hat on his head and he 

 walked up and said, "My name is Jones and I want a pass 

 to St. Louis," and Mr. Smith was interested in teaching 

 politeness to employees and he thought this was a good time 



