74 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



farm products of any market; she pays cash; she is the one in- 

 dispensable animal on the farm, and today, as an organization, 

 we will swear allegiance and under the leadership of our gallant 

 and fearless Dairy and Food Commissioner and his Assistant 

 Secretary, who has done more to develop her resources than any 

 man in Illinois, we will erase the dark spots of filled cheese and 

 counterfeit butter made out of lard, tallow and cotton seed oil 

 from the map of dairy development and take it out of the his- 

 tory of Illinois dairying. We will assure the world that the 

 brand ''Illinois" on dairy products stands for purity. 



I'm not here, gentlemen, to magnify farther the virtues of 

 this Lonesome Cow. I am here to ask you to maintain this trail 

 she made a century ago, and I believe it remains for this or- 

 ganization to do this. It means, to my mind, the gentle, refining 

 influence of a business that is elevating in its tendency, that will 

 make a better people and a happier people, a more contented 

 people, a country of beautiful, artistic, fascinating and attractive 

 homes. In the interest of the trail, we will see that every man 

 and woman on the Illinois farm has an agricultural education 

 and reads a dairy paper; we will dignify the business and im- 

 mortalize the cow and place her in the front ranks where she 

 belongs and crown her queen. We will erect a monument that 

 will be prominent to all the world, and on one side shall be writ- 

 ten, "Dedicated to the Dairy Cow and Her Keeper" ; and on 

 another, ''A Prosperous Country, a Land of Milk and Honey" ; 

 on another shall be, 'Teace on Earth, Good Will to Men" ; and 

 there shall be inscribed in letters carved by a master workman 

 the name of Matthews and Newman and Johnson and Horne- 

 man and Mason and Caven and Jorgensen and all loyal sup- 

 porters, and on the very top shall be the name of Illinois State 

 Dairymen's Association. 



