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and lady stood, and Sherman gave his seat to the lady, but 

 two more ladies got on and Lindley gave his seat to two ladies." 



We had with us last night our esteemed friend, Mr. Marple, 

 of St. Joseph, Mo., who told how dairying was growing. I have 

 a recollection of Missouri as a dairy state back in the early '90's 

 when it was not so much of a success. I was called out there in 

 1891 to try and resurrect an old prominent creamery. The stock- 

 holders had put $7,000 in it and were trying to get some of it 

 back again. I had occasion to go out in the country there and 

 look over the land to see what the chances wxre for getting some 

 milk, and one day while riding along, I saw a good looking cow. 

 I went in to see how the people felt about dairying. A lady came 

 to the door, and I asked her if they were dairying. ''Well," she 

 said, ''We have been, but my man says he has made up his mind 

 it did not pay," and they had tied the cow to the straw stack. 

 The cow looked like a fair milker. I asked what they were going 

 to do with the cow, said the cow was going to suck herself and 

 when she got fat they were going to sell her to the butcher. 



For the feed question, Shilling is here from Iowa Dairy 

 Association, and while he is not a dairyman himself, he keeps a 

 cow and they told me at the dairy meetings this fall he also keeps 

 a rawhide whip in the barn and has whipped cream when you 

 want it. 



Since I have been here the last three days and watching, 

 I have modified what I intended to say somewhat. I would like 

 to call your attention — you people that have as you say been 

 dairying perhaps three years — to the quantities of figures that 

 have been presented to you in the last three days. Those charts 

 represent thousand upon thousand of dollars to present those 

 figures to you; they represent years and years of research and 

 Experiment. You are in a position to avoid all of the mistakes 

 that veteran dairymen of Illinois made. For one cent, a postal 

 card sent to the University, you can get bulletins that have 

 taken years to bring up to the point they now are and you can 

 avoid all the mistakes, and grasp all the things that make dairy- 

 ing a success. 



