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year. It is no trouble for us to show individual instances of 

 where farmers have received $25, $35, $50, and up to $75 as a 

 net return from the milk of a cow. Think what it means to us. 

 If every farmer in the State of Iowa, where we do nothing much 

 but that, what it would mean to us. What it would mean to 

 you. It is possible for them to do this. 



I am glad Mr. Lillie gave you the first dairy test association 

 in America. Great credit is due to Michigan. I saw a copy 

 only the day before yesterday of the report of the meeting, and 

 also of the constitution and by-laws from Michigan. We had 

 to cut it all up to send it to the Chicago Dairy Produce. It 

 means a great thing to these people. We have all got to come 

 to it. 



He referred to the record made at the different associations. 

 I do not want to stand before you and tell you it is possible for 

 us to do this at once. What I say is, that what is possible for 

 them, is possible for you and me to do with an intelligent study 

 of the question. Your success will depend on the amount of 

 intelligence you put in the business. There is not a branch of 

 farming today that requires the intelligence, the study, that will 

 pay as well as the dairy industry if you put the intelligence into it. 



Now when I was coming down here today it seemed to me 

 there has been one part overlooked a little. I am going to make 

 a rank statement. Brother Thurston and I were looking out of 

 the car windows, and I said to him.. We have seen feed enough 

 since we left Chicago, out in the fields ,gone to w T aste, to winter 

 the stock of the State of Illinois, if taken care of. I am glad 

 it was not so rank as I thought it was. I mean just exactly what 

 I say. You are wasting feed enough in the corn fields, and 

 leaving — here is another rank statement — as I said, enough feed 

 to take care of the stock of Illinois in the corn you have taken 

 off of it. There is only one way, the silo. 



We have gone into the silo business, feed it almost entirely. 

 I don't like to stand before an audience and say some of these 

 things. I am a farmer myself all right, but such a poor one. 

 My cattle are not Jerseys, they are all Short Horns. I wish 



