156 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



the epitaph of un forgotten virtues. To you who are not dairy- 

 men, what is your life? What have you done to assist in this 

 battle Royal for Dairy Supremacy in the Grand Old State of 

 Illinois? Are you a milk dealer? Have you insisted on good, 

 pure milk? Have you said to the man who furnishes you milk, 

 "Clean up your barns. Take better care of your milk on the 

 farm and send it to me with the stamp of purity." For the 

 dairyman's encouragement it is very noticeable that when milk 

 is plentiful, the best milk is never a drug on the market. Are 

 you a creameryman ? Have you insisted on good cream ? Have 

 you explained to the dairyman that furnishes your cream that 

 during the stagnation in the butter market, that amounts to al- 

 most a panic, there has never been a time when the highest 

 grade of butter was not in active demand. Have you explained 

 to him that it is only possible to make good butter out of good 

 cream? Have you urged him to remember that the future of his 

 business depends on quality? In my opinion, the line is going 

 to be drawn very closely in the future. 



The Illinois hog has been the pride of the Sucker state and 

 has found his way into the markets of the world, and in con- 

 nection with the Illinois steer has made it possible to sustain 

 the greatest packing industry of the world in the metropolis of 

 this great state. Illinois oleomargarine and butterine has found 

 its way into the commercial centers of the world, and has given 

 this state some notoriety. Illinois has been regarded the home 

 of the dairyman; the place where gilt-edged butter was made, 

 the central market of the United States, and at this meeting 

 place is the price made by which commerce in dairy products 

 is carried on. Some of its reputation you may well be proud of, 

 and I am sure I voice your sentiments when I say that you are 

 not going to be satisfied to stake the reputation of a State like this 

 on its past record for good butter, its reputation for beef cattle, 

 hogs and oleomargarine. 



Although "Only a Dairyman" he has a long line of an- 

 cestors he may well be proud of, and the Illinois dairyman, in 

 my opinion, lives on the very spot that Moses viewed when he 



