THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. 55 



Tuesday Afternoon, January 17, 1911. 



PRACTICAL DAIRY SUGGESTIONS. 



By 



S. B. Shilling. 



President : We will open this afternoon's session with a 

 talk from Mr. Shilling, a man who will make you smile as Mr. 

 Mason says. He will talk to you about Practical Dairy Sug- 

 gestions and anything else that comes in his mind. I know you 

 are all so well acquainted with Mr. Shilling that he needs no 

 introduction from me. 



Mr. Shilling: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and gentlemen — I 

 cannot understand these surroundings up here. It does not look 

 as though this platform was ever intended for a man to stand on 

 and speak to you from, except a man who feels embarrassed 

 when he faces an Elgin audience. • 



I said to a man as I came into the room today that I felt 

 uneasy and embarrassed when I undertook to talk to an audience 

 like the farmers and citizens in the Elgin district. I said that I 

 could not help but feel that I could not tell you anything but 

 what you already knew, and that you were probably in advance 

 of anything I could tell you about. He. said that you did not 

 know any more than we did and when I come to think, that when 

 I came through the country and saw that only about one farm 

 in five had a silo I concluded that you did not know any too 

 much. 



Now I am not going to take a great deal of your time this af- 

 ternoon. I talked to you last night but there are a few things in 

 relation to dairying that I wish to touch on briefly, and if there 



