2o6 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



and good law. When a great nation of people find they want a 

 certain thing, and it comes in all right with their methods, it 

 must be all right. I don't believe in pushing water up hill. It 

 \\'ould be absurd to talk cheese produce to you dairymen here, 

 the same as it would be to talk creamery on the old plan in my 

 state, so we can meet on a mutual ground. 



What about it ? Are our farmers doing well ; are they in- 

 creasing their business? I can tell you they are. The increased 

 production is something enormous. They have found out it is 

 very easy to produce a can or so of cream a day, that it is very 

 little additional expense, and it means money right straight 

 along every week for groceries, etc., etc. 



Everywhere you see they are increasing their productions. 

 Another thing that helps us out is the cheapness of cow feed. 

 Some one was talking here today about bran being $15 and $18 

 we buy it for $10. We have alfalfa hay, the very nicest, as 

 green as grass and as sweet as honey for 3, 4 and 5 dollars a ton. 

 It is richer than clover and abundant everywhere ; beets in great 

 quantities and corn everywhere. Wild hay $3 and $3 a ton, a 

 climate that is almost unbroken of steady sunshine, so you see 

 xt does not cost us only from $18 to $20 to feed a cow and feed 

 her well, in the western part only four and five dollars a year. 

 The cost of produce is lowered more in proportion than the 

 extra freight charges for being distant from market. We are 

 shipping an awful lot west instead of east. The time will come 

 very soon when nearly all our products will go west instead of 

 east. There is a great market opening up over on the coast of 

 Japan. It may be some of you will stray over across the T^.lis- 

 souri and get in that country like you have come here. It might 

 be you have too many boys, and I want to tell you now that you 

 can feel perfectly sure and perfectly safe that if your sons or 

 your neighbors go into Nebraska with the intention of carrying 

 t3n the dairy business, they can do it very successfully and make 

 plenty of money. They will want to continue. 



It was through a mistake that the subject of my paper was 



