HO ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



SELECTION AND CARE OF THE DAIRY HERD. 



By H. C. Taylor, Orfordville, Wis. 



Ladies and Genthemen: — 



If you have ever taught school you will notice that some people take 

 the thought into their brains through the eye. I want yau to look at 

 this picture this afternoon. (Shows picture.) You will take in the 

 thought through your eyes and consider. 



We are going to talk to you from the standpoint of the dairyman and 

 from no other standpoint. There is plenty of room in the broad, fertile 

 farms of Illinois for the production of beef, and we will all admit that 

 there is plenty of room here and there in Illinois for the dairy cow, and 

 her products. 



Just think a moment of the numberless things in use in this State, 

 and every state, and all over the world, where people gather about their 

 tables three times a day and render thanks to God for what they receive. 

 Take a horn handle, a knife, and also ask to have the cream passed and 

 the milk passed and the butter passed and the cheese passed. All of these 

 are dairy products used three times a day, and we have one, two, three, 

 four or five of these upon our tables every day in the year. It is a 

 mighty industry. 



It comes pretty close to the financial interest of every one of us 

 that are maintaining a family and the responsibility of many upon the 

 prairies of Illinois, and everywhere else. 



I have listened today to some splendid reasons why there are not 

 cheese factories in Illinois, and I know the gentleman spoke the truth 

 in every syllable he uttered. I wish I could take you this afternoon just 

 as you are, under the conditions you are laboring and trying to make some 

 money from your farm by turing the energy of that farm and your time 

 and your thought and the energy of time and labor of the members of 



