192 . ILLTNOIS DAIRYMEN S ASSOCIATION. 



. In conclusion, I want to say that the National Dairy Union 

 is your organization, it belongs to you dairymen of the United 

 States. We are, as I said before, simply instruments to carry 

 out your wishes, and we not only want your financial support 

 but we want your moral support as well, and I want to ask you to 

 do this — take this question home with you, explain it to your 

 people; tell them what the National Dairy Union is doing for 

 them, that it is protecting your industry from the grasp of a 

 combination (and I don't believe it is a mistake to say that it is 

 the same combination that controls the value of your beef) and 

 that today we represent the only organization that ever grappled 

 with a trust of this kind and have been successful in every 

 particular. 



I thank you. 



The President : — One thing I have noted in Brother Shill- 

 ing's remarks, and I have noticed the same thing in the remarks 

 of nearly every speaker that has come before us, that is the 

 importance of this field work. Illinois started it two years 

 ago. You must take this knowledge right to the farmer. We 

 cannot gather them together in one immense body, even if 

 we are the state organization. They cannot afford to all come 

 here from Southern Illinois. We must get this bill through 

 our legislature this year so we can increase this field work. We 

 should have six or seven men in the field if possible, the more 

 the better. 



The next on the program is an address by Mr. Irvin Nowlan, 

 of Toulon, after which we will have the election of officers. 



REMARKS. 



Mr. Irvin Nowlan, of Toulon. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : 



I received a hint when I was at the hotel this noon from 

 a gentleman, who asked me why I did not get here sooner. I 



