2o8 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



months until they got into the state capitol. They stood there talking 

 and a good fanner's wife stood behind them. They were comparing 

 notes on their schools, and at this point in the conversation, the good old 

 woman was surprised to hear one say she had 56 children this year; the 

 other one said "I have 28." Tie old lady asked, "Where do you live?" 

 Well anyway on the basis of that 56 and 28 and ten acres to the cow we will 

 stampede to Iowa. 



I have a little stuff here that struck me would explain the situation 

 in Iowa as well or better than I could state it in my own language. 



Iu May of 183,3 Henry Clay wrote: 



"Since my return from Washington I have been principally engaged 

 with the operations of my farm, which have more and more interest for 

 me. There is a great difference, I think, between a farm employed in 

 raising produce to market and one as mine is applied to all kinds of live 

 stock." 



Mentioning the "English Hereford" and "Durham" cattle, he con- 

 tinues: 



"The progress of these animals from their infancy to their maturity 

 presents a constantly varying subject of interest; then our fine green- 

 sward, our natural parks, our beautiful undulating country, everywhere 

 exhibiting combinations of grass and trees and growing crops." 



He paints a word picture worthy the genius of "The Gentleman 

 Farmer," the eloquence of the distinguished Senator, worthy "The Ken- 

 tucky Home," but equally applicable to thousands of acres today — 

 "From yonder Mississippi's stream. 

 To where Missouri's water gleam, 

 Iowa in Iowa." 



Then the haunt of buffalo, deer and Indian. 



In less than a generation Iowa prairies re-echoed the defiant bellow 

 of the buffalo, as he sullenly retreated, yielding the rich range to the ad- 

 vancing herds of the sturdy settler; in less than a generation, Iowa 

 passed through the period of poverty that has ever marked the picket line 



