1)2 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



JUDSON P. MASON 



In late April, 1927, Judson P. Mason passed away. 



His passing removed from Illinois a leader in dairy- 

 farming who had been conspicuous in state dairy work for 

 fully 50 years. Mr. Mason was a conspicuous success; his 

 dairy farm returning him good profits every year. 



Mr. Mason died in his farm home that was his birth- 

 place and the home of his father, who got the land as a 

 government grant in 1845. He was always a farmer, both 

 dirt and dairy farmer, and proud of that fact. He delighted 

 to tell of an experience in a city where he knew no one and 

 needed money. He. went to a bank and asked to have a 

 check cashed, saying he was a dairy farmer in the Elgin 

 district. It happened he was talking to the president of the 

 bank. Mr. Mason's hands showed him to be a hard worker 

 and that helped him in the banker's estimation, but^when 

 the banker noticed evidence of the cow stable on Mr. Ma- 



