84 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



the extreme points of the United States, showing that close to 350 pounds 

 of butter can be produced from pure or grade. Jersey cows. That may be 

 surprising to you when you think that in this state it is something less 

 than 200 per cow, and Wisconsin 220 per cow. There are individual herds 

 backed up by good dairy judgment and skill, with good selection of my 

 breed of cattle that made 350 pounds of butter per year, and I believe, and 

 you believe it, and the question is up to you to act upon it, whether you 

 will do the same. Unless you are interested in dairying all this will pass 

 for nothirg. If you are interested you will look the figures up that go to 

 make up the sum of $90.00 per cow at the market price of dairy products. 

 It is then up to you to know hbw much it costs to keep that cow a year. 

 By selling some of your feeds and purchasing others you can get the actual 

 profits in ihe dairy business, but I will talk to you more fully along this 

 line this afternoon. 



1 wish in this discussion that we might cement ourselves ira one solid 

 body to march forward; that we may have on our banner a picture of 

 every dairy cow of every breed, and thiat we could go forward and get what 

 W 1 are after from the people who represent us in the legislature. 



I have the greatest respect for the man who is working with the Hoi- 

 steins, the Guernseys and the others, and they are the best for him to have 

 and to work with, if he is prejudiced in favor of that breed of cattle. There 

 is plenty of money in the dairy business and there is no use at all for us to 

 work against each other's interests and say that we 'ilone have the only 

 true dairy cattle. 



I may not be quite consistent with that, but yet I shall speak what I 

 believe to be the truth before I get through, and I am only going to talk 

 ten minutes. 



We go to the legislature and ask for an appropriation for our line of 

 dairy work. What did we get? We were told to go away by ourselves 

 and get together on some issue and then come together and they would 

 consider us. It is like the church that wanted prayer for rain. They 

 were told by their minister when they had agreed on the hour he would 

 pray for rain, and he never had any chance to pray for rain. 



