28 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



have got to work for efficiency in production, so I will say 

 in closing — I have gone over my time now — that the prob- 

 lem before the dairy farmers of this country is to eliminate 

 the low-producing cow, the cow that is producing the sur- 

 plus, and the surplus determines very largely the price of 

 all dairy products. 



We must get better cows by the use of pure-bred bulls 

 capable of producing or getting better producing animals 

 than the cows are bred to. We must turn our attention to 

 the growing of more legume hay, because the dairy cow of 

 this country is being starved for protein. We are not feed- 

 ing our cows enough of that element, and their low milk 

 production in a great many cases can be attributed to the 

 fact that they are starved for the proteins. The dutch 

 cheese, for example, is very largely protein, and you can't 

 make that from a carbohydrate, it must come from the pro- 

 tein of the plants. The soils of this country are crying 

 out for legumes because they have the power of gathering 

 nitrogen from the air by organic matter, and in the decom- 

 position of organic matter plant power is eliminated. 



Then we have got to advertise our product, give pub- 

 licity to its food value and its necessity in the diets of our 

 people, so that they will pay us a price in keeping with its 

 value as a food and in keeping with the cost of production, 

 because I feel unless the farmer of this country is receiving 

 a price for his products in keeping with the products that 

 he has to buy, that agriculture is due to travel on the road 

 to bankruptcy, and when the farmer goes bankrupt I fear 

 for the welfare of this nation. 



I thank you. ((Applause.) 



President O'Hair: I know you have all enjoyed Mr. 

 Glover's speech. I have very much. It is seldom that you 

 can hear the class of men that we have at the Illinois Dairy- 

 men's convention this year. The fact of the matter is we 

 are the biggest organization in the United States when it 

 comes to getting real talent. 



I want to make an announcement or two. The first 

 thing I want to say, the folks that are giving us the ban- 

 quet tonight would like to know how many of us they are 



