36 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



the milk, or the creamery in the neighborhood, it is all dairying, 

 provided you will follow lines laid down by the gemleman from 

 Washington. He made it so plain to all of us that the dairy 

 business is the sheet anchor of this country. It is a benefit that 

 you cannot calculate by dollars and cents. Instead of turning 

 poor land over to your successors, your children, you are turning 

 good fertile soil that will produce something, and they can make 

 a good business farming, whereas otherwise they could not. If 

 a man will sell corn and sell wheat, it is not so much for this 

 county, but you go down into Madison county where with every 

 bushel it is 24 cents of fertility. The land is getting higher in 

 price in dairy localities in the southern part of the State. Where 

 land is selling for $125 an acre you have got to get a return in 

 order to succeed and make a living on land of that kind, while 

 if you are dairying you are not afraid of $200 an acre. Down in 

 Madison county they have paid $400 an acre for ten acres east 

 of there, and they know the possibilities, and if he can pay such 

 a price and succeed, surely here where land is cheaper you can 

 realize more of a success. But you must get the right kind of a 

 ct)w. I might add to the gentleman who spoke, that it don't only 

 take dairy machinery and a market, but dairymen and dairy cows 

 besides. Dairymen and dairy cows before market. You got to 

 have those to sustain a market. It is just like a ship without 

 water, it can't succeed on dry land. A creamery can't succeed 

 without patronage. 



Tomorrow morning will be a meeting of special interest to 

 the dairymen, and I know that the dairymen are busy usually in 

 the morning taking care of his cows, and preparing everything 

 before leaving, but I want to tell you that they will derive full 

 benefit by attending tomorrow's meeting; they can't afford to 

 skip tomorrow morning. 



Father Lammert : — Mr. Chairman, I would like to ask 

 question. You spoke about different crops being raised on farms 

 and I believe that it is an impossibility for our farmers in these 

 counties who wish to go into the dairy work, to divide their 

 attention to these crops as well. If dairymen, be dairymen from 



