178 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



DAIRY LEGISLATION 



Mr. W. B. Barney, Holstein-Friesian Association of America 



Mr. President, and ladies and gentlemen: I want to 

 assure you that I am greatly pleased to be with you today, 

 and truthfully say, that in an experience of about fifty 

 years in attending conventions, I have never visited one 

 that had the array of talent on its program up to this time, 

 that you have had here in Illinois. 



Now I want to say that I was president of the State. 

 Dairymen's Association of Iowa for three years, and I was 

 never able to get out a bunch of men such as you have here. 



I am going to be much like the last speaker — I may 

 have a sort of a rambling talk for you this afternoon. 

 There has been so many good things said during these 

 meetings, that it doesn't seem to me that there is a great 

 deal left for me to say this afternoon. 



There is one feature, though, which seems to me 

 hasn't been touched on. Perhaps many of you will not 

 agree with me on what I have to say on this matter. I 

 think it has a great deal to do with the dairy industry; 

 I think it has a greater deal to do with the pure-bred live- 

 stock industry, and what I mean by that is the condition 

 of the farmers in this country today. 



It just happened that I heard President Coolidge when 

 he was in Chicago, just a little later I went out to my home 

 state, Iowa, and I was at the meeting that was held at 

 Des Moines. Now naturally I should be pretty strong for 

 Coolidge, due to the fact that I was born in his state, or 

 he born in mine. We are natives of Vermont, both of us, 

 and I liked his principles of economy. I have always been 

 a pretty good Republican, therefore we shouldn't disagree, 

 but I do wish to call your attention to a few of the things 

 this afternoon that I believe are important. 



I have said for a long time that the pure-bred indus- 

 try — and when I say the pure-bred industry I mean cat- 



