2io ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



clean-brained farm boy, whose energy and intelligence, application and 

 adaptability in other occupations have won personal success, while con-' 

 tributing most to the power of the nation in its industrial conquest of the 

 world. The immigrant who formerly sought work as farm labored, as 

 the preliminary to farm ownership, is now absorbed by that wonderful 

 army of workers in the manufacturing district, adding another healthy 

 appetite for beef and butter (should I say oleo?) in the hungry work- 

 man's ratio of at least sixteen to one. 



'The steer and the hog are having "their inning" and, so far as the 

 cow is concerned, a condition not unlike that noted saying by the poet, 

 Virgil, nearly two thousand years ago, now exists in Iowa — 



"Nor shall your heifers, as was the custom of your fathers, fill the 

 snowy milking pails, but spend ail their udders on their sweet offspring." 



Another potent factor is found in the universal good times. The Iowa 

 farmer is financially "on easy street," the farmer's wife shares his pros- 

 perity and one of its greatest blessings has been the emancipation of the 

 "women folks" from the milk stool, which, after years of honorable ser- 

 vice, has been relagated with grandma's spinning wheel to the dusty gar- 

 ret of memory. 



From the preliminary reports to the State Dairy Commissioner, I find 

 there are — 



784 creameries. 



90,000 patrons. 



1,382,000 cows. 



in Iowa; each patron milked an average of seven <,ows; each cow produc- 

 ing one hundred and thirty pounds of butter. In short, less than half 

 the cows contributing to the creamery and that half at less than half 

 their capacity, produce the eighty odd millions of pounds that make Iowa 

 the Queen of the Dairy States. 



The dairyman declares dairy bankruptcy to be the only resultant of 

 such a policy; the Hawkey e farmer retorts — "If it don't pay, it helps 



