90 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



weighing 200 said 'Tardon me for referring to family history a 

 little, but my father and aunt and grandmother cooked bread in 

 that way and three or four loaves in a pan, and my grandmother 

 lived to be 99 J4 years old and had a daughter about SO and sons 

 70 and 75 and my father was 72 and they all weighed about 200, 

 and I married a little girl in the country who never heard of Do- 

 mestic Science, nor of cooking your way, I guess Sherman is an 

 example of Domestic Science, and I am an example of the old 

 way of cooking. 



I am a little bit surprised we have no Domestic Science edu- 

 cators here. 



Referring back again to what I said about our Committee. 

 We are in earnest in this, and we invite as many of our friends 

 from the north to inspect our country and when you leave here 

 you will have a good feeling for southern Illinois. We produce 

 good corn. We can raise cow peas and you can't ; better hay than 

 you can and just as good clover when we get the ground in condi- 

 tion and we all raise wheat, and we can raise all the food that is 

 necessary for the cow. 



I was talking with a gentleman today and I wished to call 

 attention to our shredded fodder. We have an advantage over 

 you, we can plant cow peas with our fodder and cut them to- 

 gether. I was reading the other day in the National Report of 

 Agriculture of the most prominent dairyman in Indiana who has 

 a Jersey herd that was the most valuable producers on his farm, 

 and he accounted for it for having shredded fodder, and to those 

 of our friends who are here I want to insist upon the value of 

 shredded fodder. When I was young and on the farm I had to 

 do that job, and I always swore that if ever I saw a machine that 

 would shuck fodder corn I'd get it, and I think I bought the first 

 one I ever saw and we have used it ever since, and had the best 

 results from it of anything we have had. We can raise anything 

 up here and we invite you to come and see us. 



We were discussing the milk fever question some time ago, 

 and I would like to say that up in the northern part of the state 

 thev do not have the intense hot weather that we haA^e here. We 



