186 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



REMARKS. 



S. B. Shilling, President National Dairy Union. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen : 



You will notice, perhaps, on the program, that I took the 

 place of an Iowa man, but I want to say to you that we have 

 a kind of queer way of doing things out in Iowa, anyway; we 

 all belong to one happy family. The Iowa dairy commissioner's 

 office, the state dairy school and the state dairy association all 

 work together, and therefore it does not make much difference 

 which gets before the people first. 



I represent two lines of business, one of them is dairy 

 farming and the other is begging. Now I don't want anybody 

 to get up and go out with the idea that I am going to work very 

 hard on either this afternoon, because I am not; but, as the 

 president has paved the way for me, I think probably I had better 

 cut the rest of it out entirely. 



The fact is, I have had a pretty bad dose on my mind for 

 sometime in regard to dairy farming business, and I don't know 

 whether I can settle it and get rid of it without telling you about 

 it. I have labored under the impression for sometime that I 

 was a dairy farmer, but inside of the last year or two I have 

 about made up my mind that I am not, that I am only a sort of 

 make-believe, and if any of you who are familiar with the dairy 

 type of cows would look at my cows today you would make up 

 your mind where " I am at." The fact is, while I thought I was 

 breeding dairy cows and have been trying along that line, I 

 recently found that I knew very little about it and that my herd 

 is inclined towards the beef type. And I will say this, that if 

 God will forgive me for the injury I have done to the dairy indus- 



