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friend here does. They can't put all their stuff into the cows, or, if they 

 did you fellows here would not live. 



They must have a cow as a manufacturer of two kinds of packages. 

 Or rather the fillings of one package and butter tub and they must have 

 the cow to manufacture another package to put in what the cow cannot 

 eat. Nine-tenthsi of the butter s nipped out of Illinois is made from 

 double purpose cow. Why? Simply because we must have a cow to 

 give 200 butter fat and make a ca If. Bless your soul it is done every 

 day, so don't say it is not. 



There is a funny thing going on. There is a whole lot of human na- 

 ture in this. This first breed of soil robbers get off; the cow chases them 

 off, and then well to do farmers raise families, get rich, and move to 

 town; the towns are full of them. He says, "I have milked all I am going 

 to; I have raised my boys on the farm, and I guess I have milked enough," 

 and he quits. Goes to something else and what happens. Inquire at the 

 bank and find out. And what do you suppose? While in that bank 

 they paid out $20,000 for milk an d $40,000 for chickens, and $60,000 for 

 cattle, and $60,000 for horses right in the center of the dairy country. I 

 wanted to know the reason of it, and I have given the reason. The old 

 man moved to town and quit milking, the boy says he will do something 

 else, and so the dairy gospel moves west. 



You can't keep up the fertility of land, as our friend Grout says, 

 without some kind of livestock, you must have it. The hogs don't do 

 much in the pasture; he ought to have a chance to do more. One hun- 

 dred hogs is not enough. You can raise horses and horses but for the 

 good of the land you must have the dairy cow and her •value can't be 

 told, and if you don't have her y ou can't keep up. 



The great possibilities of dairying. It links itself with the main- 

 tenance of the fertility of the soil. The steer feeders can't do without the 

 dairyman. I would not take 100 Jersey steer calves for a gift. I might 

 take 100 heifer Jersey calves, if I could have them fed milk six months 

 and sell them for veal. But if you want ever to keep up the; fertility of 

 the land you must have the dairy cow. 



