90 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



take the place of our butter. It takes no more time and no more 

 money to produce a good article than it does an inferior one, and 

 I wish to urge you, to arrange to furnish a good article of raw 

 material at all times. Dairying is the only industry that is pro- 

 tected by a special law. 



Now as a last thought, I want to say to you, the sooner you 

 go into the dairy business, the better it will be for you. You may 

 keep out of it for a time and you may be in a measure successful 

 a while longer with your present mode of farming, but sooner or 

 later you have got to do something to restore to your farms their 

 lost fertility and nothing will do this like the dairy cow. No bet- 

 ter object lesson could be given to you farmers than to have you 

 go through the old dairy sections of Illinois, Iowa or Wisconsin. 

 You will find there the improvements worth two or three times 

 as much as they are on the farms that are devoted to grain rais- 

 ing and what the farmers in those sections have done, you can do. 

 If they have built up and restored the fertility to their soils and 

 made money out of the dairy cow, you can do it. 



I want to thank you for the privilege that I have had for 

 standing before you for this short time and if as I said in the 

 beginning I have said anything that will set you to thinking or 

 arouse in you a spirit of investigation I have accomplished all that 

 I came for. I have endeavored to tell you the truth as I see it 

 and I have simply narrated the results of my own experience and 

 observation. I thank you. 



