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meeting. He gave a very interesting talk about dairy develop- 

 ment at his native place, Watertown, Wis., which has been a 

 dairy country for over 30 years or more. He told how the land 

 was brought up above its original fertility and said that what 

 dairying had done for that country it surely could do here, as 

 climatic conditions were far more favorable here than in Wiscon- 

 sin. (He asserted, if they had no colder days in Wisconsin than 

 we had here this winter, farmers up there would try to raise corn 

 all the year round). 



MEETING HELD AT ALTAMONT, APRIL 1, 1909. 



Meeting called to order by Director A. F. Jansen, who also 

 acted as chairman. Song : E. N. Upton, of Effingham, "I Am the 

 Holstein Man." 



First speaker introduced was Prof. C. C. Hayden, of the 

 State University. He gave his instructive and much needed talk 

 on "Feeds and Feeding," and what kind of crops most profitable 

 to raise in the locality, as on that point greatly depends the profit- 

 ableness of the dairy business for the farmer engaged in it. He 

 had to shorten his talk somewhat on account of having to leave 

 for his train. 



Next speaker was S. B. Shilling, president of the National 

 Dairy Union. His subject was "The Necessity of More Syste- 

 matic Farming." ' He explained to the attending audience which 

 crowded the hall, the unavoidable future consequence of the pres- 

 ent usual method of farming, farming without a proportionate 

 number of live stock to the number of acres farmed, through" 

 which the farm products ought to be marketed, in order to again 

 produce the necessary fertilizer to put back on the land, where the 

 crops are taken from. He explained how that could not be ac- 

 complished in a better way than by intelligent dairy farming. 



