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cent of all that, that is cottonseed oil. Part is cocoanut oil, 

 and yet the oleo people pass out this stuff, that we are ruin- 

 ing the cottonseed industry in the south, and they have 

 been getting by with it. 



I think that the time has come perhaps, when it will 

 be very well to retaliate. There are other things that we 

 can use in the way of protein feeds for our cattle up in 

 this country, and I think they should be used. Why not 

 use corn gluten? That is produced here in Illinois, and 

 it is produced all over the central west, and in a general 

 way we can say that we do want to make those people 

 come across. I think it would be fair to remember that 

 there are other proteins that can be used besides those 

 that we find in cottonseed oil. 



Now I am wondering if a lot of people here aren't 

 asking themselves this question, ''Aren't we going to overdo 

 the dairy industry?" I remember when I was down in 

 southwestern Missouri about a year and a half ago, I talked 

 to quite a good sized crowd there. When I had finished a 

 gentleman in the back, by the door, got up and said, *'Mr. 

 Barney, aren't we going to overdo the dairy industry?" I 

 said I will have to answer that by telling you a short story. 

 I am old enough so that I remember the time over fifty 

 years ago, that my father owned a farm in southern Wis- 

 consin, and we had four or five cows on the farm. We 

 had a spring house and we sat our milk in pans, in crocks, 

 and we raised the water around it as we needed to by the 

 use of a stone in the outlet, had a flagstone floor in the 

 spring house, and we skimmed the milk with a hand skim- 

 mer. It was my part of the job to do the churning with a 

 dash churn, and I can well remember the days that I 

 wanted to go fishing the butter was always very much 

 longer in coming. (Laughter.) We didn't have ther- 

 mometers then to tell whether the temperature of the 

 cream was right or not, and we didn't have many of the 

 things that we have today. 



I recall that just a little later my father came to me 

 one day and he said — we were getting about six to eight 



