44 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Judge John Lynch. 



Judge John Lynch : The President has been so in the habit 

 of inviting the speakers to speak before he calls on them, he 

 thought he had done so with me, but he has not. I might repeat 

 what your President has said and what Mr. Gilkerson has said, 

 that on behalf of the association personally I am glad to be in 

 Elgin at a meeting of this kind. 



I have for a few years been giving some attention to devel- 

 oping dairy interests in southeastern Illinois where I live, and I 

 have always had a great admiration for Kane county or Elgin, 

 the seat of the great milk and butter producing interests of Amer- 

 ica. 



We down in southern Illinois look up to northern Illinois 

 and to Elgin for inspiration and for help. We come up here to 

 learn the lessons that you gentlemen have worked out by long 

 years of study and experience. 



We come here not so much on our part from southern Illi- 

 nois to say anything that may be instructive, and possibly not 

 even interesting, but we come here to learn. We come here as 

 students to try and find out something about the great practical 

 question of running a dairy, of producing a dairy cow and of 

 meeting the thousand and one problems that are to be met in 

 this great problem of running a dairy farm. 



I have no doubt but that there are hundreds, and I might 

 say thousands in this neighborhood, who are devoting the greater 

 part of their energies to the question of dairy farming and have 

 gone along for years so imbued with their work they have not 

 appreciated the importance of the things they are doing. We 

 can see that back in Egypt where we have not had this interest 

 developed. 



In our country they gave it the name of Egypt because when 

 the early settlers of Illinois had failures of crops they came down 

 to us to get corn, and they gave us in the southern part of Illinois 

 the name of Egypt, going back to the early history of the human 

 race, but it has been so easy to make a living down there. It re- 



