FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 29 



going to have for dinner, and there are two young men here 

 that will sell you tickets, take your money, and if we can 

 know by noon, then we can let them know how many there 

 will be. 



I want to make an announcement about our afternoon 

 meeting. We will begin our meeting at one-forty. Mr. 

 Muckleroy will talk to you and you can't afford to miss his 

 speech, because he is going to tell you, I think, about his 

 own plant. It is one of the most wonderful things I have 

 seen in Illinois. He knows what he is going to tell you, and 

 then Mr. Stanard is going to speak at two-ten. 



I have asked Mr. Stanard if he wouldn't say something 

 about the tubercular trouble in Illinois. I think he can tell 

 you something there have been a good many people want- 

 ing to know, and I am asking him to speak on that subject. 

 We will have Prof. Fraser and Prof. Morrison again this 

 afternoon. 



There is just one thing I want to take a minute to give 

 you, talking about the production of the cow, showing you 

 what men can do that will just try a little. I want to give 

 you some data taken over here in one of the corn belt 

 counties where they feed cattle and raise cows. 



Illinois is a little bit different from Wisconsin. We 

 do our dairy business with just a few cows, each farmer 

 having some cows. 



Along in the summer I thought I would make a sur- 

 vey over in the corn belt countries, so I went to Schuyler 

 Creek Creamery and told them that I wanted to get some 

 data on cream and butter fat production, on the farmers' 

 cows. They offered me one of their bookkeepers and said, 

 *This young lady can go clear through the books and give 

 you what you want." I said, '*I want about six months." 

 (Laughter.) I then told her what information I wanted, 

 and not to take anybody having above over ten cows to 

 a farmer; get the number of cows each man had, the aver- 

 age number of cows per farm, the amount of cream and 

 butter fat produced during the six months' period on the 

 farm, tests and prices, and it has developed some very in- 

 teresting figures. These figures were all taken from actual 



