THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. 59 



ence. While our lands are not as valuable as yours, I want to 

 say this, I want to say it because I believe it, that if I did not 

 have a silo I could not afford to keep the farm. 



This is a subject up to you, and I belive that it is only a 

 question of time before you must get more off your land to the 

 acre, and I do not believe that there is anything equal to the 

 feeding value of corn that you put into your silo. I hardly know 

 how to handle this part of her subject. It does not seem to me 

 that intelligent men in any community could afford to be with- 

 out a silo. I will go even further and say, that there is nothing 

 that I would advise a man that owns a forty or so acre farm to 

 mortgage his farm for except to get money to build a silo. I 

 believe it will give him the biggest returns for his investment. 



I do not wish to advocate that this is the only feed, but I 

 do believe just what I tell you that we cannot afford in this or 

 any other community to get along without one. 



The two questions I came here to discuss above all others 

 is this question of quality and this question of silo, the cheapen- 

 ing of feed on the dairy farm. 



You are already a dairy section and I would be wasting my 

 time and yours if I undertook to enlarge upon the benefits you 

 derive from it, but I know that in parts of the country you are 

 not as advanced as you should be. 



I believe there are these two important points in dairying 

 that we must not lose sight of. I am sorry there has not been 

 an opportunity of becoming more familiar with what the pro- 

 ducers of market milk are up against. I imagine the difficulties 

 must be fully as great, if not greater, than we have in the pro- 

 duction of a finished article. 



Another thing, although our market in butter is in a criti- 

 cal condition, I am just as firm in the belief as I ever was that 

 we never will overdo the production of dairy products provided 

 we produce the best quality. I believe today it is the only solu- 

 tion of the oleomargarine question. The poor butter is the only 

 thing that has let oleomargarine into the market. If we produce 

 a fine enough product we will relegate oleomargarine to where 

 it belongs. 



