74 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



the tenant on my farm. I do want to make this statement, 

 however, that never in the history of Northeastern Iowa in the 

 past fifteen years have we had the crops that we have had this 

 year. Every year we are getting larger and larger crops but 

 this year we have harvested the largest crop we have ever had. 

 We attribute it principally to the dairy cow. Last month I got 

 40c a pound for the butter fat in our local Co-operative cream- 

 ery; our skim milk is worth 25c a hundred more and you will 

 find even though our lands are not as valuable as yours they 

 are paying us big interest on their value. These prices encourage 

 us and keep us in the dairy business. 



Our creameries are owned and operated by us ; we manu- 

 facture our own product and ship it to an eastern market and 

 sell it. It only goes through one man's hands besides our own. 

 We buy our coal through the creamery, also our feed and all 

 other things necessary, direct from the manufacturer, and in that 

 way get it pretty nearly from first hands. This co-operative 

 spirit will grow in a community if you will get together. Our 

 organization is twenty-two years old and we have incorporated 

 again for twenty years more. It illustrates that there is noth- 

 ing we need so much as the spirit of co-operation. 



I hardly know what to say about the silo. I do not like to 

 stand before you and urge you to build silos when you have 

 five hundred in your County, for it seems that this is just taking 

 your time and mine, too. You can learn so much more to go and 

 see the different styles and talk with the men about them. This 

 would do you more good than anything I could tell you. If I 

 was enthusiastic about silos when I talked to you before I am 

 more so today. I believe in the silo more firmly today than I 

 ever did; the more valuable our lands are the more necessary it 

 is to have them. 



I will tell you about my silo. I have the same silo that I 

 had five years ago; I built it myself. I am going to tell one on 

 the President now. He said after he had listened to me talk 

 silo on several occasions that he was going to build one to find 

 out whether I was lying or not. I have the same silo that I had 

 when I talked to you before. It looks just as good today as the 



