76 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31ST, 10:30 A. M. 



Mr. Mason : '' Gentlemen, the meeting will come to order. 

 We will be favored with selections from the orchestra." 



Orchestra. 



The first speaker this morning is Mr. E. T. Ebersol of Chi- 

 cago, and his subject will be "Alfalfa Raising and Its Value 

 as Feed." 



Mr. Ebersol. 



"I have been adopted by the Illinois State Dairymen'5 

 Association, and I am glad I have been. I never come to thesq 

 meetings but I learn a great deal ; they are very instructive in- 

 deed. It seems to me that if the people of this community real- 

 ized the importance of this work there would be more people 

 here than this room could hold. The dairymen should have been 

 here yesterday, because it was demonstrated that if the people 

 of this community would drink as much milk per capita, as the 

 normal individual should, instead of a million it could be made 

 a sixteen million dollar business in Danville and vicinity. More 

 than that, the people of Danville have gotten the habit of drink- 

 ing, evidenced by the fact that you have more than sixty saloons 

 in your city. I dare say that the dairymen could drive that bus- 

 iness out of the city, and the people would be drinking milk in- 

 stead of other drinks. (Laughter). 



My language, I dare say, will be such as you can readily 

 understand, not as that of the man at a nearby city, who, hear- 

 inof a considerable noise in the kitchen went to learn the cause 

 and found his wife attempting to drive a ten-penny cut nail in a 

 piece of seasoned oak with a flatiron. He said to her : "Mary, 

 not in the world could you drive that nail in that wood with a 

 flatiron, use your head." (Laughter). 



The impression that I want to leave right at the beginning 

 is that we must have a purpose, a definite purpose, if we are go- 



