18 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



THE DAIRY INDUSTRY 



A. J. Glover, Ft. Atkinson, Wis. 



Mr. A. J. Glover: Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentle- 

 men : When I return to Illinois, it seems like I come home, 

 for I worked for you people twenty-five years ago. 



Someone said to me this morning, "Is this your first 

 trip to Galesburg?" I said, *'No, I was here about twenty- 

 five years ago, attending a dairy meeting." Someone said 

 to me last night on the way here, **How does it happen, 

 that you never come back to Illinois and attend any of the 

 dairy meetings?" ''Well," I said, "1 thought I was doing 

 my share by Illinois, because this was the twentieth meet- 

 ing that I had attended since the National Dairy Show, 

 and I couldn't very well see how I could attend more and 

 take care of my work on the paper." 



Now, folks, I have no surprises for you this morning; 

 what I shall have to say has been said many times. I am 

 not like the old farmer who had been wearing clothes that 

 were rather shabby for a long time, and his good wife had 

 taken him to task because he didn't buy some better 

 clothes; and so after urging him for some months he made 

 up his mind that he would surprise his wife. So he went 

 down to the village store and bought a complete new out- 

 fit: shirt, trousers, coat, vest, and had them all wrapped in 

 a package and put in the back end of his wagon. Before 

 he reached home he drew up to the banks of a little creek 

 and started to disrobe. He dropped his coat and vest into 

 the stream, and then the trousers, his shoes and stockings, 

 and shirt. Then he went back tc the back end of the wagon 

 to get the new outfit, and somebody had ''lifted" them! 

 He got up in the seat again, picked up the lines, and said, 

 "Get up Mary, get up Tom; we'll surprise the old girl yet." 

 (Laughter.) But I haven't any surprises for you. 



In this section of the state which is so largely devoted 

 to the raising of corn, hogs and cattle, the farmers are apt 



