ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



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I might mention right here, that if I was going to teach 

 agricuhure in the pubHc schools, I wonld try and get the state to 

 make charts and hang them on the walls of the school houses. 

 Have the different types of the best animals and what they are 

 good for, and the children would set in their school room and the 

 type of that animal would be fixed in that child's mind that when- 

 ever the teacher would ask what type of an animal that was and 

 what is was good for, and how it was produced and so on, that 

 it would be an object lesson. For instance these steers, the Here- 

 ford and the Jersey steer. The Jersey steer had put it in this part 

 here. He had tried to put it into the pail where his mother had 

 been putting the butter fat for generations. Not on the back 

 but down here, and that is the reason there was such a difference. 

 You need the length of the animal, so that the animal can digest 

 properly. These object lessons are supposed, to a great extent, 

 to appeal to the mind of the listener, and that is the reason I did 

 not talk long on that same point. 



For instance, the cow should be much wider through the 

 rear than in front. She should be wedge shaped. And there are 

 a great many other points that were not touched upon. 



Any other questions ? 



O : — In your experience of talking before farmers were you 

 ever convinced there could be produced steers from dairy animals? 



A : — I did find a gentleman last summer at a dairy meeting 

 and he had gotten a Hereford male and he thought that was just 

 the thing to improve the dairy stock, and after he had heard me 

 talk and he come and shook hands with me and said ''You opened 

 my eyes, it was a false god, it was proper to smash it. I have 

 been using a Hereford and I know I am wrong." I believe this 

 is so plain that common sense will hardly ever question it. 



Q : — Have you heard them question the theory of the beef 

 animal. The old dual purpose cow ? 



A : — Not so much of that down here. I was a dual purpose 

 animal man once myself, but I have learned better. 



O : — You better come and talk in our part of the state. 



