S6 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



we are producing it on cheaper land than those in the northern 

 part of the state. 



If our visiting brother will pardon me, I would like to say 

 a few words about southern Illinois. In traveling over the state, 

 I have met with a good many men who hs-vc a very poor opinion 

 of southern Illinois, as far as its products are concerned, or the 

 industry of the people. I want to say to you tonight that no 

 section of this state, and no section of any other state in the 

 union in the last ten years has developed like southern Illinois. 

 It has averaged in the last five years the placing of a bank to each 

 county, and the deposits in the banks of southern Illinois have 

 doubled in the last eight years. Coal fields have been opened and 

 we have an abundance in Illinois of coal and some run to twenty 

 feet, many of them are worked at 30 feet. We have coal all over 

 our section of the county, and in this section here if we go down 

 48 to 60 or 70 feet have coal. The county has increased in the 

 way of producing fruit and a great deal of the fruit you have in 

 the northern part of the state you get from the south part of Illi- 

 nois. Not only that but the dairies in southern Illinois have in- 

 creased. 



I call your attention to this to show you that you are not in 

 the land of Egypt in the sneering way in which it is used, but 

 in that Egypt that is the producer of not only corn, but other 

 products for the happiness and welfare of mankind. 



The question of farming is the important question of agri- 

 culture I should have said. In speaking of the many interests 

 here, I desire to call attention to a difficulty under which we labor, 

 and the gentlemen who have been making some speeches today 

 called attention to the perfect dairy cow, and what we should have 

 as a perfect dairy cow, and I want to call your attention to how 

 difficult it would be for any section, not in the dairy business, 

 to add five or six cows and to raise their calves not having raised 

 them down here. We have done well to do what we have done 

 or rather what we w^U have done by next June. 



I was asking a gentleman today about this question of pro- 

 curing dairy cows, and what he thought about it, and he said it 



