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trashy novel, which so delighted the mother. Without commenting upon the 

 guilt of these parents, the conduct of the children is repeated by every person 

 who will not accept and profit by valuable fragments of experience, which have 

 been obtained by years of toil and study and which is proffered to them freely. 

 Then besides these fragments of experience from others, there are experiences 

 in our own lives, which if remembered and improved, have great value in direct- 

 ing our future plans and actions. The saving of these fragments of time, 

 material and experience, will greatly increase our wealth of ability to succeed 

 in whatever branch of business we pursue. 



I have said nothing of the fragments of time, of money, of character and 

 everything else valuable, lost, yea, worse than lost, by those who habitually 

 visit and patronize the saloons, for I could not if I attempted portray the evils 

 resulting from such habits, and I would hope that none in this intelligent and 

 cultivated assembly would ever darken the doors of those who engage in this 

 nefarious business, though prosecuted under cover of license, for by so doing 

 not only valuable fragments of time, material and character are lost, but ruin 

 of body and soul are the legitimate fruits thereof. 



And now, my dear friends, members of the State Dairymen's Association, 

 of this noble and historic State of Illinois, this State of which her citizens may 

 well be proud, I thank you for your kind attention and consideration, and in 

 conclusion permit me to congratulate you, in what has been accomplished 

 during these eleven years of your existence as an associated body, in educating 

 the dairyman and the stock raiser, as well as the general farmer, so that his 

 condition may be improved financially, morally, socially and religiously, for 

 that, I understand, is the aim of your association. Before the late civil war, 

 when the question of our national existence was the issue, and its perpetuity 

 was maintained at the cost of thousands of valuable lives and millions of 

 precious treasure, Cotton had been proclaimed king of this republic. When 

 the labor that produced and sustained that king upon the throne was declared 

 free, and the voluntary soldier was permitted to return to bis accustomed labor, 

 Corn obtained the power and swayed the kingly sceptre. During these years 

 of unusual storms, with late and early frosts, this monarch trembled while Hog 

 became the aspirant, and the contest continues unsettled, while disease cripples 

 the aspirant, and Hog and Hominy are being discounted. From the signs of 

 the times, as seen from the tree of observation, considering the progress being 

 made in sympathy with the dairymen's associations throughout our united land, 

 it can be said of all these monarchs, "Thy days are numbered," Mrs. Bovine, 

 with a family backing of 45,000,000, valued at $1,200,000,000, is on the track, 

 not like King Alfonso's widow, to be a regent, but in queenly dignity to sit 

 upon the throne in regal splendor and wear the crown, without a rival, and 

 whether a Durham, Devon, Hereford, Holstein, Ayrshire, fawn-like Jersey or a 

 humble native, long live the Queen, COW. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Lespinasse : There is one point made in Mr. Avery's paper that might 

 carry with it an erroneous idea, namely, that part which refers to the small 

 fragments left to the pig in feeding skim milk. There are many practical 

 men, many farmers who do not believe that after the cream is all taken out of 



