THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. 37 



I have known cases where the consumption of new milk and 

 work on a dairy farm combined has cured severe cases of lung 

 trouble that today would be called tuberculosis. 



You know the old Jews sought a land flowing with milk and 

 honey. We bring you authorities on all of the subjects presented 

 in our program. Our aim is always "the best is none too good.'' 

 We bring you the strongest program that has ever been pre- 

 sented at a dairymen's convention. 



We come here to give as well as to get. "He stays who lives 

 to sell. He lives who lives for others." 



We are glad to have you young people in our audience for 

 the old are too fixel in their ways to change and any new ideas 

 presented to them are not readily accepted or practiced; but the 

 young man and the boy are ready to absorb and put in practice 

 the modern methods they see and hear. They must be influenced 

 early in life or not at all. Some one has said, "One ship sails 

 east and sails west with the very same winds that blow. It is not 

 the gale, but the set of the sail which tells them which way to go." 



We bring you demonstration and research and the result of 

 long years of study on the subject of tuberculosis, not that we 

 expect to settle the whole matter, but we do expect to learn some 

 things in regard to this great subject which is occupying the 

 minds of great men today, and is of vital interest to the dairy- 

 man. We bring you the best authority on making clean milk; 

 (the world has no place for a .dirty dairyman) and also how to 

 make the large quantity and make it in the cheapest manner. 



We claim that we should keep more cows and better ones 

 on the same amount of land. We ought to put our ideals at 

 least a cow to an acre and three hundred and fifty pounds of but- 

 ter fat to the cow. We also believe that while we know that one- 

 third of the cows of Illinois are kept at an actual loss to the owner 

 and one-third return no profit, but simply pay their board, and 

 the other third are the only ones who return a profit to their 

 owner, that our attainment should be "profit in every cow." And 

 our ideals should be "a can of milk to a cow." 



