1 6 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



With a continuation of good times, the people of this country will re- 

 quire more butter each year. Let us not look for prices so high that a 

 man of moderate means wil be unable to buy it. I think that we should 

 have this object in view all the time. Cheap production of milk. Les- 

 sen the cost of production thus more profit to the producer. 



We have on our program buttermakers, who will tell the audience 

 how the milk is handled after reaching the creameries. I trust that we 

 shall have a large audience of buttermakers. The time has come when 

 the buttermaker not only wants to know the art of buttermaking, but 

 should inform himself on all branches of dairying and farming, so that, 

 he may instruct his patrons if necessary, how to care for their milk; feed 

 their cows a balanced ration, and be able to give them any information 

 that they may want relative to the dairy business. 



Illinois has now about completed one of the largest and best equipped 

 agricultural colleges in America, and has men at the head of the several 

 deparements with sufficient brains to run them. Our young men will no 

 longer have to go to other states to attend dairy schools. The National 

 Dairy Union should be recognizzed by this Association for the work they 

 have done in the interest of the dairy business, and against the great 

 fraud, oleoma,rgarine, or butterine. 



Everyone here assembled that is connected with the dairy business, 

 or interested in it, should write their senators at once asking them to- 

 support and vote for the Grout Bill. 



It is a critical time just now. Let us all put our shoulders to the 

 wheel and help the oflacers of the National Dairy Union get their bill 

 through the Senate. "United we stand, divided we may fall." Should 

 the bill pass the Senate and become a law, the dairy business of this 

 country would improve. The competition the cow has had the past few 

 years has discouraged her. Cottonseed oil, tallow and lard is too cheap 

 production for her to compete with. She must have protection, or she 

 will be driven out of business. 



The secretary of this Association has made a good program. We 

 now ask for the members hearty co-operation, and I trust that they will 



