40 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



I am boasting. I might add as I go along that every man who 

 lives in Iowa and owns a farm feels a little like Harrison, the 

 first Harrison that was president of the United States. He rep- 

 resented our government in more foreign countries than any 

 other man. In his old age he was Minister to China, and when 

 he came back he came by way of England, he was given a ban- 

 quet there and he was down for a toast on "The Greatest Coun- 

 try in the world," and he said among other things : ''I have just 

 come from China, she is the Garden Spot of the world, she main- 

 tains more people to the square mile than any other country: I 

 came through Japan, she is the flower garden of the world ; and 

 i came through Germany and France and England, all three of 

 them are the greatest manufacturing countries in the world, but 

 of all the countries in the world, the United States is the best, 

 and Ohio is the best state in the Union, Hamilton County is the 

 best county in Ohio, and they say I have the best farm in Hamil- 

 ton County." (Applause and laughter). We did have a fellow 

 in Iowa who went out to Montana; he got so poor he couldn't 

 get back. One day an evangelist came there and he said at a 

 meeting, "Let everybody that wants to go to Heaven, rise." They 

 all stood up but this one man from Iowa. Then he said : "Let 

 everybody that wants to go to liell, rise," and he did not get up. 

 After the meeting the evangelist approached this man and said, 

 "You are a peculiar man, you don't seem to want to go to either 

 Heaven or Hell?" "No," replied the man, "I'm from Iowa and 

 I want to go back." (Laughter.) 



I want to talk to you this afternoon about some of the prac- 

 tical things of dairying and as I quoted a little while ago from 

 Robert Burns, I don't believe the people of Illinois have taken 

 the right animal into partnership with them on their farms, and 

 there are very many reasons for that. Now, I have the honor 

 of having been born in the great state of Illinois, because Illinois 

 is a great state, but I left this state in my early youth and went 

 to Iowa and we have been through the same stages over there 

 that you have, the fact is that in the development of every coun- 

 try it is about like this : First the range, and then the grain farm, 

 and then general stock raising, and then dairying. That is about 

 the history of every country. You folks in Illinois have raised 

 too much grain on your farms and sold it through the elevators 



