Il6 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Before I forget it, I believe tliere is a convention about to be held out 

 west, Gtockmem's convention, in w hich they are going to take up what is 

 known as the Grout Bill, and do all they can to defeat that bill. It is now 

 pending, but I want to say this th at while I am a breeder of beef cattle^ 

 I have no sympathy with those men who are trying to defeat that bill. 

 (Cheers). I think that bill is just and right, and, as a general thing, the 

 beef men in Illinois are in favor of that bill. (Cheers). I am in favor of 

 it, because those men, in attempting to make butter out of the fat of those 

 steers are attempting to perpetrate a fraud. It is not right. If they 

 want to make an article of food from the oil, let them make it, but let 

 them sell it for just exactly what it is. (Cheers.) 



Here is an illustration. I had to go to the office of the Keystone Mill^ 

 and the agent there told me he had just sold eight mills to go to a mill in 

 Southern Illinois. Eight large mills. That struck me as a little peculiar. 

 I said, "Eight mills to go to one milling establishment." "Yes, sir, to 

 grind cobs." Then, of course, I understand what it meant. They were 

 grinding cobs by the carload and b y the train load to put in their bran. 

 They were making bran out of th ose corn cobs. I learned afterwards 

 that they shipped corn cobs from Nebraska by the train load to adulter- 

 ate their bran. On the same pri nciple, the stock men are opposing thisr 

 bill, I suppose the corn growers of Illinois will rise up here and say the 

 pure food laws of this State shall not prohibit the sale of this bran. You 

 are reducing the price of corn, if they are not allowed to sell these cobs ta 

 make bran to sell you dairymen. Why should they be interfered with? 

 I will look for the same kind of a movement. There is just as much 

 reasoni as in the other. If they want to grind up corn cobs and sell it to 

 you men tor corn cob bran, all ri ght, but when they mix it with the pureS 

 bran and reduce its quality, they are perpetrating a fraud that should not 

 be allowed in this country, and why the United States Senate should hesi- 

 tate over the Grout Bill is something that I cannot understand. 



In conculsion, let me say that if you are going to build up a herd, you 

 want to decide the kind of herd you want. If you want butter fat, here is 

 the kind of a sire you want. On the other hand, if you want a beef animal 



