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ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



The legislature said we must have the co-operation of other legislatures 

 and we said we would have the co-operation of the men ini congress. You 

 had one man in Illinois who wanted to join in with us. You can't do that 

 thing — 1st isn't fair. You may sell Illinois cheese for Illinois cheese and 

 Wisconsin cheese for Wisconsin cheese, and that is right. You have got to 

 rt.vave united sentiment behind it all. There is a whole lot in this busi- 

 ness. Excepting the church and family relations, it is ihe best family to 

 get into. You make acquaintances all over the country. 



I have to speak again this afternoon, but will speak of it twice. We as 

 Holstein breeders and Jersey breeders and Guernseys have lost sight en- 

 tirely of one end of our business. Never been in sight and it is the best 

 end. It is the breeders' end of the business. I think I have license to 

 talk a little about that. We as dairymen lose sight of the breeders end of 

 the business. We have not got pure bred cattle. 



I want to take you as you are, working with grade cattle of some kind 

 or native cattle. You ought to so breed and bring up your herd to such a 

 stai dard, remembering all the time that you will have surplus stock to sell 

 in the course of events. What are you going to do with them? You are 

 losing sight of the fact that there is a market for your dairy stock. I want 

 to make that point here. In every dairy herd the breeding subject should 

 be thought out to a finish, so that you will have surplus stock to sell to the 

 dairymen, not; to the butcher — the poorest market in the world for a cow. 

 Everyone has said that is where she is going, and, of course, that's the 

 final end of all of them. We are more fortunate ourselves— we have a 

 place 2x6. 



There is going to be a Short Horn man talk after me, so will stop. But 

 must say it takes no more feed to raise two heifers than to put one beef steer 

 on the market, and I challenge a contradiction of that. A little more coarse 

 feed maybe and you can raise two dairy cows of two and a half or three years 

 of age as cheaply as you can raise om beef steer and make a good one of it, 

 and the heifers ought to be good ones, too, and will bring in more money 

 than one steer will. 



