154 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



was poor, bread would be thick. I don't need to say anything 

 about the Shady Grove butter, what it will be in the future ; but, 

 it was the part on my bread tonight that was thick. 



I am sure you all know what we have at Urbana. What 

 we have there is yours. We are very proud of it. The dairymen 

 of northern Illinois are very proud of it and Southern Illinois 

 is proud of it, and I know that the people of Clinton will feel 

 the same towards us when they realize how big this business is. 

 I could go on and tell you several stories that would fit directly 

 into this work, but before I sit down, I must tell you what hap- 

 pened to me one time when I visited one of our numerous north- 

 ern creameries. I hope the time will never come when I will 

 be called on in this vicinity to do a similar task. Just as the sun 

 was going down, I called at the home of a prosperous farmer. 

 He was not one of the kind referred to that took more skim 

 milk than belonged to him. He was not satisfied with returns. 

 The creamery company was not just satisfied at what the man 

 was bringing in. I was called upon to do this one thing . I 

 couldn't make that man understand that the best way to get along 

 in this world was to treat others as you would have them treat 

 you. He was like the man who did you and did it first. The 

 woman of the house was doing the milking. I always figure 

 to get at a place at milking time. The cows were ordinary look- 

 ing cows, red ones and some spotted ones . I couldn't see any- 

 thing wrong with them. I took a sample of the milk from the 

 first cow and the second and by this time the man got home. 



"What are you after?" he inquired. "I am after informa- 

 tion." 



"This isn't the place to get it." "Well", I said, "I have 

 gone to the trouble of coming clear out here to see what you are 

 doing, and I am going to stop here". 



He was suspicious of what I was after. He unbuttoned his 

 coat, but I told him he wasn't big enough. 



"I don't water my milk." I said, "I haven't said you did." 



Well he said, "I should judge from what you are after, that 

 something was wrong". 



