4) ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



That man has gone still further and bought several more of the 

 same kind of cows; he paid $110 for the cheapest one. This 

 man is a good example of what the people ought to do in South- 

 ern Illinois. 



I do not now have to blush when I am asked where I am 

 from. A while ago if I said I was from Southern Illinois people 

 said, " Down in Egypt," but Egypt today is doing something, 

 Egypt is producing something, Egypt is coming to the front, all 

 of which is because they have brushed up against some of the 

 people from this country, they have brushed up against and have 

 observed people that did the thing right, made money and had 

 some left, the fact is, made money faster than they can at any- 

 thing else. Those are the conditions and I am glad Southern 

 Illinois is coming to the front, because there has been a great 

 deal of effort expended in that section in every way. Of course 

 the first thing necessary to make dairying a success is a good 

 dairyman, the second a good dairy cow, and the third a good 

 dairy market. 



H. B. Gurler : — A few days ago I met a young man from 

 King county in DeKalb, who is interested in five thousand acres 

 on the Fox river. He was talking about building a silo; he 

 said he was going to build it although the condensaries would not 

 take ensilage milk. He said, " I am going to build a silo any- 

 way; if they will not take my milk I can make money to have a 

 silo and put it in some other use than to get along without a silo 

 and take milk to the condensary." There is a point to think of. 



Another point, I have the question raised frequently about 

 my keeping silage and high grade milk. I am just as sure I can 

 make a sweeter and better milk by feeding silage than I can 

 without. One Chicago gentleman, who was largely interested 

 in the milk business in Chicago some eight years ago, nearly 

 every time I met him began to reason with me about feeding- 

 silage. I got tired of it finally and said, " I will bet two to one 

 you cannot tell milk from silage from that made from ordinary 

 feed, unless it is a sweeter, nicer milk of the two." He had no 

 money to bet and he never said " silage " to me since. 



