44 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



Hugo wrote "Les Miserables" on the Isle of Guernsey, it was 

 practically a barren island, and now they are two of the richest 

 spots in the world and nothing has made them the richest spot 

 but the cow. 



In other words, when you sell a ton of butter which is worth 

 $700, you sell with it about 50 cents worth of your land, using 

 the same illustration as I used about corn, oats and hay. There 

 is only oil and sunshine in a ton of butter. (Laughter). Some 

 fellows used to put a good deal of water in it, but the govern- 

 ment made them quit it, and I hope the time will come when we 

 have our standards not only of moisture, but of fat, because the 

 boys are putting something else in the butter now. Fll tell you 

 what I heard — it may not be true — that some fellows are putting 

 milk sugar, 4 to 6 pounds, — they pay about 20 cents a pound 

 for that and butter sells for 40 cents a pound, and this alone 

 makes a difference in the output of some of these creameries of 

 $25,000 a year. They started to put it ni to give the butter body. 

 Up in Iowa they are nearly all the co-operative creameries. 

 Every little town has its creamery, they pay out each year all 

 the way from $150 to $200 a }'ear. \\'e paid ^y cents per pound 

 for the butterfat during the last year. You must have a well 

 managed farmers' creamery and in Wisconsin, Iowa and Minne- 

 sota we have those kind of creameries and we found them the 

 most successful creameries that we can have. 



Now I want to say to you people one other thing, and that 

 is this : That in order to dairy you have got to have dairy cows^ 

 — real dairy cows. Not only a dairy bull, but dairy cows as well. 

 Now my father was a breeder of Shorthorn cattle from my earli- 

 est recollection. I did not know anything about dairy cattle 

 when I began dairying some fifteen or twenty years ago, I did 

 not know anything but Shorthorn cattle; but I knew enough ta 

 know that they were not real dairy cattle. If anything in the 

 world will break the heart of an Illinois farmer, it is to do away 

 with the Shorthorn breed of cattle — I would not have you do 

 that, but those who do stick to Shorthorn cattle I ask you to let 

 the dairy business go to the winds. "The proof of the pudding 

 is chewing the string," and I have chewed the string and I know ! 

 (Laughter). Those of you who want to dairy, get real dair}r 

 cows before you go into the business. 



