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The President : " I will say for the benefit of some of you 

 that Mr. Wulffis sent over by the government of Sweden to 

 learn our American system of managing cows and making fine 

 butter. He has only been here three weeks and has been in 

 our factories to learn about making fine butter, but he has told 

 us more than we have him. 



ENSILAGE. ' 



D. T. and E. C. Brown, Batavia: 



The prominence of dairy interests in Kane county farming 

 is well known to all of you, and if there be any section of our 

 great country where a method of cattle feeding, which claims to 

 have special value in the production of milk and butter deserves 

 full and impartial consideration, that region is right here where 

 we live and where most farmers are trying to make a living by 

 dairy farming. It may be, however, that the millenium is near 

 at hand for the cows of this country, and that they will soon be 

 released from their stanchions and be left to wander where they 

 will, as being no longer profitable servants to their owners, in 

 comparison with that special pet of the Chicago stock yard 

 lords — the Poland China grunter — for has not the great Geneva 

 glucose factory opened up a veritable gold mine to the feeder of 

 swine m the form of gluten slop? One of my neighbors says 

 he can make pork for i cent a pound with gluten feed. And 

 when I daily see the long procession of gluten tanks passing my 

 house, some of them coming from beyond Aurora, and traveling 

 lover twenty miles a day to convey Mr. Pig's tipple to him, I 

 sometimes think Mrs. Cow's day is almost over in Kane county, 

 and that the officers of " the Prohibition party " ought to inquire 

 into the influence and practices of the great gluten saloon up at 

 I Geneva. 



I will say nothing about the morality of feeding its other 

 product— glucose meal — to our milch cows, for we all know 

 jhow it is ourselves when we are short of other mill-feed. But 

 ; while we have our cows with us let us consider whether there is 



