THIRTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 71 



already talked to you upon so many times. For that reason I 

 am not going to take a great deal of time this afternoon. 



If I was enthusiastic over the dairy subject five years ago, 

 I am more so today than I have ever been before; but before I 

 go any further I would like to say this : I would like to con- 

 gratulate the people of Effingham and the people of this County 

 upon the wonderful Convention that they are pulling off here. 

 It bodes good for the future, and I doubt if anything outside 

 of a dairy show or a State Fair would interest you more than 

 the show you have here today. It speaks well. 



Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I do not stand before yon. with 

 any well-defied idea of what I am going to say ; I would like to 

 say something that would help you; I would like to scold you a 

 little bit, too. The dairy conditions of this Community are not 

 just what they should be; your market for your milk is not what 

 it should be. I am not standing before you for the purpose of 

 defending any organization, but I will say that I belive you 

 owe a great deal to the condensery located here. The price of 

 your lands has been advanced as a result of it. I want to say 

 that knowing conditions as I do, I believe that they are paying 

 you every dollar they can afford to for your milk. There is no 

 market for condensed milk today, it is overdone. Not more than 

 fifty miles from here, there is a small factory, an individual con- 

 cern much smaller than yours, and they have on hand twenty- 

 five thousand dollars' worth of condensed milk that there is no 

 market for. I want to find fault with you. You are to blame 

 yourselves for the condition you find yourselves in. You have not 

 gotten down to the real principles of co-operation that should exist 

 among you. You are at the mercy of a large company because 

 you are not situated so as to market your own products. It will 

 not take you long to come to this conclusion if you will study 

 the conditions. I am from a Co-operative County in Iowa. We 

 believe in Co-operation; we do not care to divide our profits. 

 Secretary Wilson says, "The producer only receives one-half 

 the consumer pays for the milk product," and this does not look 

 good to us that we should spend our entire time in the produc- 

 tion of this product and give to the railroads and the middle man 



