FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 17 



home (laughter). Mr. Van Pelt, of Waterloo, Iowa, who 

 was going to speak to you this morning, on the subject, 

 "The Dairy Cow," has lost his place because of the late- 

 ness of the hour in getting together, I am sorry to say, but 

 if he had been here he would have had a lot of empty seats 

 to speak to, so maybe it is better that we hear him later. 



I just want to say this: Today in Illinois the dairy 

 cow is the backbone of the farmers' finances, and if these 

 fellows that are running around over the country trying to 

 get shut of their corn at more than it is worth would have 

 come here and attended this meeting instead of going up 

 to Iowa today, they v/ould have known when they got 

 through how to solve that question, because the dairy cow 

 is the backbone of the farmers of the State of Illinois, and 

 before we get through here we will see you are. 



In these times they try to do everything to people; last 

 summer they tried to make monkeys out of nature, and now 

 they are trying to make hogs out of them and feed their 

 corn to them. I don't know whether they are going to do 

 it oil not, but if they do they won't get much for their corn, 

 because the kind of hogs I think those people would make 

 want to sell it at fourteen cents a pound; but if you just 

 had a few good dairy cows, before we get through this 

 meeting you will know that is the only thing that will keep 

 the farmers up. 



At a meeting in a county adjoining this county last 

 week a man said if it hadn't been for his seven Jersey cows 

 he would have broke last year. He said ''those seven cows 

 paid the bills that would- have sent me to the wall." You 

 know sometimes you can sue a man for forty or fifty dol- 

 lars and put him in bankruptcy if he didn't have it then; 

 and the dairy cow is cash property. 



Now this morning we have with us a man whom we 

 are mighty glad to have here. He is a man of wide repu- 

 tation, his paper is the largest paper in the world in the 

 dairy line — Mr. A. J. Glover, the editor of Hoard's Dairy- 

 man, and I know you will all enjoy hearing him talk. (Ap- 

 plause.) 



