12 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



who have failed to see what is building up the soil and making 

 property more valuable, have not taken up dairy lines, others have 

 done so and have encouraged the dairy work, not alone for the 

 fertility of the soil, but to put money in their pockets. 



When I was selected as a member of the committee on the 

 Board of Directors some one said I was the Jersey crank down 

 in Egypt. That may be. You will find the Jersey man and 

 dairymen as a whole are like the congressman and new member 

 in the House who when he rose to make his first speech, with a 

 good deal of temerity said : " Mr. Speaker." The speaker 

 recognized him and asked what he wanted. "Am I entitled in 

 this talk that I am going to make and have circulated among my 

 friends, to say I have a nice bunch of Jersey heifers to sell?" 

 We dairy fellows are pushing the work and taking the good 

 results in season and out of season. It may not be any special 

 benefit to us, but we do think it will be a help to the communities 

 which take up the work. 



You find people asking which breed of cows is the best, and 

 some say Jerseys, some say Holsteins and so on. It puts me in 

 mind of the two little boys who saw a rattlesnake while they were 

 playing. They came up and looked at it as it lay coiled for a 

 strike, and one boy was fascinated with the head and glitter and 

 the other was absorbed in the rattles. The father came to the 

 rescue and talked to the boys and asked what they saw about the 

 snake that especially fascinated them. One said its head. "What 

 a head it has." The other boy hadn't seen the head, but only 

 saw the rattles and tail. So it is with a good many of the dairy 

 fellows. Some see milk and push nothing but milk, and I don't 

 know you Effingham people, but down here it is everything milk 

 and no butter. 



In other sections where there is not the demand for the milk, 

 but a demand for butter, they see only that end of the dairy line. 



In speaking for the visitors who are here, I greatly appreciate 

 the cordial welcome by the Mayor. I also am waiting with in- 

 terest to see this wonderful machine he speaks of and to see your 



