FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION 25 



COWS out of these associations from $25 to $50 higher than 

 the ordinary grade cow. 



The dairy industry is moving west and the center of 

 the dairy cow population in the U. S. today is right here in 

 Illinois. We are now in this dairy center. Your big job 

 here ia to grow surplus cows. You will never find a fellow 

 coming up here to buy calves out of scrub sires. 



So my message to you and in conclusion, I want to say 

 I may have rambled a bit, but I hope you have got my mes- 

 sage, the message of better cows through weeding out those 

 poor cows, of greater profits through better records and 

 better feeding, of b'^.tter cows through pure-bred sires. (Ap- 

 plause). 



Mr. O'Hair: Now, we have a gentleman here who has 

 come all the way from Iowa on the C. & E. I. and you know 

 what that means. I am sorry we haven't but one hour and 

 fifteen minutes for him to speak. He is perhaps the biggest 

 breeder and best judge of cattle in the world — Professor 

 Van Pelt. • 



Ladies and Gentlemen: One thing you people in Illi- 

 nois are mighty fortunate about is having O'Hair here in 

 your state. Everytime I look at him, I think about the lady 

 in California who was riding with a friend on a street car. 



In the course of their conversation, she made this re- 

 mark: 



"I do not like Los Angeles; there are so many Irishmen 

 there." 



Her friend replied : "And I do not like San Francisco ; 

 there are too many Irishmen there." 



Now it happened that there was an Irishman sitting 

 behind the two ladies, and, overhearing their conversation, 

 he leaned over and blurted out: *'Yez can both go to hell; 

 you'll not find any Irishmen there." (Laughter) . 



I never see O'Hair but what I think she is right. 



I just hardly know what to say to you people. I had a 

 fine address made up, but Professor Caldwell took part of it 

 and Professor Reed took the rest of it. So I have nothing 

 left. If there is anything left to tell, I do not know. What 



