ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 131 



We now come to soil robber No. 2, and is the hardest fellow in the 

 l)usiness, and they are not going to get rid of him until you have a first 

 class funeral. No. 1 is poor and soon starves. He goes to Dakota and 

 runs> up against the Black Hills; finally get lower and lower, and you don't 

 Itnow what becomes of him. 



But your sinner of all sinners is the man who has got rich on a farm 

 by feeding cattle, and from which corn is a balanced ration^ and he goes 

 to town and he puts on airs. "I -am'. a money maker; I don't see why my 

 son or my tenant can't make money. I am worth $20,000," etc. H© 

 never made any money to speak of. He got land worth $5 an acre, and he 

 raised corn on it until he exhausted the fertility of it, and then he went to 

 grass and fed steers, and his land probably sold for $75 or $100, and he 

 puts the money in his pocket and says he made it. He simply absorbed 

 it. He had an opportunity, such as will never come again in this coun- 

 try, or possibly in this world. There is no such land to be.g^velpi awayi 

 now. His son must earn money; ne must create values, and his son pos- 

 sibly goes to an institute and says: "Father had them go to dairying." 

 Now he says you can't do it, bee ause I will have to build a cow barn, andl 

 I will have to put up a windmill and have to put up hay sheds and have to 

 provide cold water, and to put m y farm into repair and build fences, andi 

 it will cost too much money, and so he hires it to the corn raiser. 



You are working at cross purposes in this State. You have a lot of 

 soil robbers. You allow the Danes to lay down $30,000,000 worth and com- 

 pete with you and knock down the prices, raising pig feed and horse feed 

 to the English and Scotch and Irish. Now what is the salvation? 

 Dairying; the dual purpose calf. Give them a chance to feed their cat- 

 tle and keep up the fertility of their land. That is the only salvation for 

 you. When you get rid of these old soil robbers who think they have 

 got rich. It must go on north and south and east and west until we have 

 a rational system of dairying in all these broad lands. 



They put it down as an abso lute fixed fact that the fertility of land 

 can never be retained short of some kind of live stock and grass. On 

 $50 land you must have something more than a calf and the keep of a 



