^^ Illinois State Dairymen's Association. 



from the udder (Illustrates by chart) and goes at once to mouth 

 for feed, to body for a great digestive tract and thence to the 

 enlarged udder. Yet some men lay more stress dn the color of 

 the hide than upon all this. One will want a black and white, 

 one a white belt around a cow. What does that amount to? 

 Nothing counts but that one thing that the animal eats an abund- 

 ance of food, digests and it assimilates and makes an abundance 

 of milk. You can get that type among all breed and then again 

 you get a lot that have no type, and then what? You have 

 nothing. 



I tell you it makes me ashamed to think that we are in a land 

 where we have high schools, colleges and universities and yet 

 upon our farms there are many men that do not understand the 

 animal that sustains them and their homes. There is a whole 

 lot of learned men in this world that are graduates and do not 

 know what to do with themselves, and no one knows what to do 

 with them. Put a so-called educated man beside a cow that he 

 does not understand and how much will his Greek and Latin 

 help him out ? Poor fellow ! His study may have stimulated 

 him to think. In that case he will get good. 



America's Mission Is a Peaceful One. 



I am going to diverge a little here and give to you a burn- 

 ing thought which is in my mind. America has a special mis- 

 sion, her mission is to develop the arts of peace. The old coun- 

 try has given us enough of the arts of war. They have piled 

 up national debts to the extent that they never expect to pay them. 

 England never expects to pay her national debt. Then look at 

 the multitudes of orphans and widows and the anguish trace- 

 able to a battle. Do you know that one of the artists in Russia 

 was suppressed because he was so realistic in his painting of the 

 agony of the battlefield that the Czar would not allow him to 

 exhibit his paintings? If the paintings were awful what must 

 be the actual battlefield? See the folly of it, killing each other to 

 settle questions. America has this mission and I believe that 

 she will succeed as she cultivates to the greatest extent the arts 

 of peace, makes homes and makes them happy, makes them clean 

 and makes them white. That is the kind of American home 

 that I love and anything contrary to it I hate. 



