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cutting out the guesswork, the creamery flourishes in the town, 

 and is one of the best mediums of converting the raw product of 

 the farm into cash. Hence these should be fostered and helped 

 by farmers, tradesmen and the public generally. The cash from 

 the dairy part of farming comes weekly, while from the cattle 

 and crops once a year; and, not only that, but after selling the 

 milk and cream, you have the cow left, and she will return to the 

 soil, if you feed and bed her right, more soil fertility than you 

 have taken from the soil to feed her. Thus it is a class of farm- 

 ing, if carried on accurately , that will allow each generation to 

 hand down the "old farm" to the next generation with its ability 

 to grow crops unimpaired. 



ADDRESS. 



By 

 S. B. Shilling, Chicago, Illinois. 



By the President: — We will now listen to a speech by Mr. 

 S. B. -Shilling of Chicago, who is President of the National Dairy 

 Union, a dairyman farmer and who believes in having a silo. I 

 take pleasure in introducing Mr. Shilling. 



Ladies and Gentlemen : — I will confess to you as I stand before 

 you, that I feel somewhat in the air. That is, I hardly know 

 how to talk to you. I probably feel a great deal like the old 

 farmer did, who had been reading in the newspapers about the 

 wonderful accomplishments of the Wright Bros, in their air 

 ships. He turned to his old wife and said "Gosh Marthy, those 

 Wright fellows think they are great, when they go up in the air 



