70 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 17, 1912. 



THE SILO AND ENSILAGE AS A FOOD FOR DAIRY 



COWS. 



S. B. Shilling, Chicago. 



Meeting called to order by the Secretary at I 145 P. M. 



Mr. Caven : Mr. Mason is a little late but it will be all 

 right for us to go ahead. I want to introduce a speaker to you 

 who has spoken before to audiences in Effingham a number of 

 times, but he always has something good and practical to say. 

 I take pleasure in introducing Mr. S. B. Shilling of Chicago. 



Mr. Shilling : Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen : — I 

 noticed this morning that you insisted, or seemed to, that the 

 speakers occupy the platform, but I wish you would permit me 

 to stand here, not but what I have always had due respect for 

 the pulpit, but I never had any inclination to stand behind it, and 

 I am sorry to say that I never had much of an inclination, not 

 as much as I should have had, to sit in front of one. 



I appreciate, ladies and gentlemen (you will notice that I 

 included the ladies this time even if I did not the last time; I 

 have been married since then), the privilege of standing before 

 you again, and still it is with a great deal of embarrassment that 

 I undertake to talk to you this afternoon, and that comes from 

 what your Chairman said in introducing me. I have talked to 

 audiences in Effingham before, not once, but I have talked to 

 some of you three or four times, and I do not know but that I 

 have talked to some of you as many as six times before, and I 

 feel this afternoon as I stand before you and look into your 

 faces that I dislike very much to go over a subject that I have 



