150 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Toastmaster : — Is Mr. R. A. Lemon in the room ? I am 

 sorry he is not here. He was to talk on the Dairy Queen cow and 

 King Corn. The king corn probably applies more to you people 

 than it would to a person from the northern part where we do 

 dairying. The Queen cow is above everything else on our farms. 



I don't like to see a man get so many eulogies without some- 

 thing being said a little on the other side of it. I have got to 

 tell a story on Sudy that they tell outside of here, and they say 

 it happened here. His team was delivering ice on a certain 

 street, and came to a certain house where there was a new baby. 

 But they had no scales to weigh the baby and they shouted out 

 of the window and asked if they could borrow Sudy's scales off 

 the wagon. He very obligingly loaned them and when they 

 weighed the baby, it was found to weigh 65 pounds. I simply 

 give you the story for what it is worth. Now, in the absence of 

 the gentlemen who should have responded to this toast, we will 

 call upon Mr. Lumbard for a song. 



Song : — Mr. Jules Lumbard. Encored. 



Toastmaster : — We will now have a selection from the or- 

 chestra. The next subject is the biggest subject we have tonight, 

 "What I don't know about dairying," by Mr. Donoghue. 



Mr. Donoghue : — What I don't know about dairying. Well, 

 that's me. I was listening to the splendid song sung by Mr. 

 Lumbard, and he looked to me as one who had just stepped out 

 of the glorious past. I have known him for 40 years, and he 

 sang as sweetly tonight as he sang then, and we all hope that 

 he will continue long in this life, and sing on forever in the better 

 land. •' 



An ordinary man or lawyer knows mighty little about dairy- 

 ing. I milked cows in 1848, that was some time before some of 

 you were born. The cows were different sort of cows, large legs 

 and big horns, lordly cows, and they lorded it over me too. We 

 had, in the first place, four-legged stools, and we sat on those 

 stools to milk, and the first thing you know, in a moment of 



