132 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



cow, or else you must make your land raise twice as much as it is doing 

 now. This $100 land must bring twice as much as the $50 land, or else 

 have something more than the calf and the keep of a cow. 



We have made great advancement, but the final solution is the farm 

 separator. I d"on't advocate eve ry man to do it. You must take time to 

 do a good thing. You must have it in order that you get your milk sweet 

 and warm to feed your calf without giving it the colic; without making a 

 poor miseriible creature born to grief and to grieve you too. You must 

 give the cream properly balanced. I have no fight with any special pur- 

 pose cow. It iS' the very thing for the special purpose dairy man. 



Men won't milk unless they have to. There is no great fortune in it. 

 The supply is used up every year and it is a blessing. Whenever it gets 

 too cheap they just drop off their poor cows and sometimes drop ofE al- 

 together, and it goes on year after year and generation after generation. 

 But dairying is a blessing. It is binding up the broken hearts, repairing 

 the wastes of the soil robbers, and laying the foundation for a grander 

 type of character. 



I have all praise for the corn raiser. He is no slouch. A man who 

 can grow that corn and then use the whole of it, and feed it to a dairy 

 cow or to a steer and feod it at a profit is a good deal broader and a good 

 deal bigger man than he is given credit for. 



Care in milking. Your cows will not give down if a man gets after 

 them with a whip, or a dog. The cattle man is a different kind of a man 

 now that thirty years ago. You have got to have the law of kindness; 

 you have got to put brains in your work, I thank you for your attention. 



ADDRESS. 



PROF. E, DAVENPORT, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, 

 Mr. President: 



I have never read a paper, and I have no business on this program 

 this afternoon, but I told the Secretary I did not want to read a paper 

 at the evening session. I want to talk to dairymen and no one else, 

 and I hope those who are not dairymen here will find business elsewhere. 



