84 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



It has been thoroughly demonstrated that with the silo we 

 have all that the farmer needs in the way of pasture, and he has 

 the cheapest and the best feed, then you can have more land for 

 cultivation, or, in other words, with the silo you can carry a 

 greater amount of stock on the same amount of land. 



Some of the farmers will say we do not own our farms, we 

 can not build silos, which is true, but you can not afford to farm 

 without stock, and the cow brings you in the ready money and 

 furnishes you your fertilizer, so you can not afford to do without 

 her. 



By the President. We w^ill now have an instrumental solo 

 by Miss Carson. 



Encored. 



By the President. We have with us tonight one who needs 

 no introduction to this audience ; one of those dairy farmers who 

 is probably doing more for his country than any one else in it. 

 the Hon. C. J. Lindley. 



ADDRESS. 



Hon. C. J. Lindley. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen. 



I think possibly that the President don't know this country 

 as well as those who live here. 



I feel as though I owed an apology for not preparing an 

 address for tonight. I have been aw^ay from home and been pretty 

 busy, and ask your pardon if I talk at random. After I am 

 through you will listen to our good friend from Chicago, the 

 Pure Food Commissioner. I will not tell you w^hat he tells me to 

 tell you. 



