THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. 219 



J. P. MASON, ELGIN. 



President : Any further resolutions ? We have a telegram 

 from Judge Lindley stating that owing to the health of his wife 

 he was unable to come. She was not well and he had to take her 

 to Florida. Mr. Mason pleads illness, but I think if you will 

 call on him he would say something. You are wanted at the 

 front, Mr. Mason. You can give Mr. Mason some of these 

 questions about feeding dairy cows, etc. 



Mr. Mason : Mr. President, Fellow Farmers : — I think if 

 I make a speech here I shall feel like the man who said his 

 speech ought to be run through the separator, for I am quite 

 sure that will be the same way with mine. 



It is appropriate that the annual meeting should be held 

 here, the greatest dairy center. There is no place where there 

 are finer animals than in this section ; good farms, good cows, 

 good crops and good water. There is no section where better 

 milk is produced than around this Fox River Valley, and for all 

 that we have good markets, and we have dairymen in this section 

 that could show that their annual output is from $55.00 to 

 $140.00 under some conditions, some markets, yet it looks as 

 though there was a chance for a vast improvement. 



It has been thirty-three years since we had a meeting here. 

 I found that program the other day, and on that program there 

 are two men that are here today, one was Mr. D. E. Wood and 

 the other myself. 



I believe in running a dairy for profit. There are no better 

 dairymen than are in this section. They cannot all be good 

 dairymen, some never know what their annual output is. We 

 used to think that if we got a can of milk from three cows we 

 were doing well. There are dairymen who get one can from 

 two cows and some get less. I can show you a dairyman whose 

 milk will bring more in one month than others will in a year, 

 and that herd cost less than $75.00 per cow. It is up to you to 



