ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



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I had the privilege a few days ago of attending a banquet 

 Avay off in the far east, and I heard a man eulogize New York. 

 He spoke about the progress in dairying in that state; I heard a 

 man from Pennsylvania telling about the progress they were mak- 

 ing in that state in dairying, and it happened to be my opportunity 

 to talk next, and in a toast. I thought it was not more fiting for 

 me, since I was from Kansas, to say something about that state. 

 I told them of the hand separator system. I told them of the 

 greatest creamery in the world which, at the present time, is 

 making 40,000 pounds of butter a day. I told them that we were 

 shipping cream over 300 miles to manufacture this butter. I told 

 them that this butter was consumed by every soldier that was 

 protecting our government at the present time; that it went all 

 over the world, naturally it must be so since butter is concen- 

 trated sunshine it must come from a land of sunshine. I told 

 them of the scientific farmer, and the scientific operations that 

 were going on in butter making. I told them that in a 200,000 

 pound lot of butter the moisture did not vary over ^ of 1 per 

 cent. That is scientific work, gentlemen, and the Continental 

 people are doing it. They are turning a uniform product out 

 day after day. 85 per cent of the butter that is produced in 

 Kansas today does not vary over 1 per cent in the score. It is 

 all made by that one company. A man from Ohio got up after 

 me and says, "Well, that beats the devil." I informed the hon- 

 orable gentleman that that was the intention. 



He said that reminded him of a story. There was a little 

 girl who was very fond of playing with her pussy and frequently 

 they got into squabbles. This little girl had two brothers, and 

 of course these little brothers once in a while used profane lan- 

 guage. She happened to get on to one of these remarks and 

 didn't know exactly the meaning of it. One day she thought she 

 had a chance to use it. In playing with the pussy, the pussy 

 hauled off and bit her and scratched her, and she hauled off and 

 hit the pussy. She says "You are a damned pussy." Her mother 

 was horrified to think of the expression she had used at the time 

 .and the impression she left on the child was very vivid. The 



