32 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



LOW PRICED LANDS IN EAST.— Of the 936 

 New York farms listed for sale by the Bureau of Sta- 

 tistics of that state, 429 farms, representing 61,523 

 acres or nearly one-half the number listed, are for sale 

 for $30 or less per acre. Of these 429 farms, 182 rep- 

 resenting 23,231 acres are listed at prices ranging from 

 $20 to $30 an acre; 193 representing 28,914 acres are 

 listed at prices ranging from $10 to $20 an acre; 38 

 representing 6,973 acres, are listed at prices ranging 

 from $5 to $10 an acre, and 16 representing 2,405 

 acres are listed at $5 an acre or less. 



It is a strange thing to me, and I know it is to everyone if 

 they would stop to think. If we would just think, is it possible 

 for us upon our farm lands to keep continually taking away 

 year after year and putting nothing back and have that land 

 respond. It is a simple question. It is contrary to all sense of 

 reasoning. No one realizes it better than you do. 



It seems to me when I stand before you and talk about 

 the value of the dairy cow you understand it fully as well as 

 I do. 



There is another question and that is a question which con- 

 fronts us and which must sooner or later demand solution. 

 While I have no desire to find fault with the government, I do 

 believe I am justified in saying, that when the government gives 

 $390,000,000 to the sustenance of our Army and Navy and only 

 $13,468,000 to the support of agriculture, every man is justified 

 in standing before an audience and finding fault with the way 

 the Government treats the greatest industry this country pos- 

 sesses. 



As I have to talk to you tomorrow, I will not take any more 

 of your time at this time. There are subjects I would like to 

 talk about tonight but as I said before I do not intend to talk 

 dairying tonight. There are many issues that should be discus- 

 sed and tomorrow I will have the opportunity of standing before 

 you and discussing some of them, those that pertain to dairy- 

 ing. 



