ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



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man can." I don't think this is a fit place for me to discuss 

 questions where there is a man that cm see through as many 

 phases of it as your President and some others here can. 



In a class in arithmetic, a teacher was trying to teach a boy 

 to add, and it seemed a hard task to make it practical. She 

 said, ''Now suppose your father gave your mother $20.00 and 

 $10.00 and $5.00, what would she have?" The boy said she 

 would have ''A fit." A little farther along he said, ''Suppose 

 your father owes you a hundred dollars, and he agrees to pay you 

 ten dollars a week. At the end of seven weeks how much would 

 he owe you?" The boy said "A hundred dollars." The teacher 

 said, "I'm afraid you don't know arithmetic very well." He 

 said, "That may be so, but I know my father." I may not know 

 all the scientific questions that enter into dairying, but I do know 

 the dairymen and creamery men and the relation that should ex- 

 ist between them. I also know what dairying will do for a 

 country ; what it has done for Illinois, and what the dairy world 

 owes — a Newman, a Gurler, a Cobb, a Collyer, a Sudendorf, 

 and many other prominent exponents of this cause (citizens of 

 Illinois), for the information received from them wdiich has en- 

 abled them to advance more rapidly and receive greater renumera- 

 tion. When Wisconsin failed to make both ends meet by rais- 

 ing grain; when Minnesota had wheat until their farms were 

 mortgaged to 75 per cent of their value; wdien Nebraska was 

 eaten up with grasshoppers ; when Kansas was withered by the 

 simoon winds from Texas ; when Missouri wanted to make 

 more money and quit raising tobacco, they all came to you for 

 advice, and you started them to dairying by your example and by 

 giving them your results, and today Wisconsin has 3,000 fac- 

 tories, a large proportion of it a cow for every inhabitant, and 

 they are a happy and prosperous people; Minnesota has paid 

 her mortgage and has money to loan ; Nebraska furnishes the 

 milk for a number of large creameries and with the co-opera- 

 tion of 400,000 Nebraska mortgage-lifters they are impervious 

 to grasshoppers; Kansas has become independent and laughs at 

 the hot winds, and Missouri boasts of the largest exclusive 



