BO ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



FEED FOR THE DAIRY COWS, 



Prof. J. A. McLean, The Quaker Oats Co., Boston, Mass 



I expect you think I am rather presumptuous in coming 

 from the Far East to discuss this subject with 3'Ou people. We, 

 in the East have grown into the dairy business; it is an old 

 industry with us and about the only kind of live stock you find 

 in the East is dairy cattle. 



I would like to extend to you congratulations, upon so 

 large a meeting. I think the Dair3'men's Association is to be 

 congratulated; undoubtedly the reason you do have so good a 

 meeting here is because you have many groups of men working- 

 together for the improvement of the dairy industry. Co-opera- 

 tion is the thing that is going to make your country — we are 

 coming to it very fast. Your bankers always have been inter- 

 ested in agriculture, but they are more so today than thoy ever 

 were before. Your merchants realize that they cannot run their 

 stores v/ith unsuccessful farmers all around them. In order to 

 have successful business in the city we must have a successful 

 CO I miry. Consequently, I think it splendid that our bankers 

 and business men are coming out openly and doing what they 

 can. They know when they are helping you they are helping 

 themselves. It is a matter of co-operation entirely. 



VVe have a lot of state institutions in the East, (jne in 

 about every 250 inhabitants of the New England states are 

 inside the institutions and going through one of thosu institu- 

 tions one day we saw a small chap in one of the looms w.-^tch.ing 

 over about fifty of these feeble-minded men who wcie ner.rlv 

 all as big as this, man Johnson I met here today and w^ asked 

 tl;is little chap, ''Are you in charge of all those big fellows?" 

 ''\'es.''* ''Aren't you just a little afraid that they miglit get 

 together and do you harm?" "No," he answered, "if these 

 fellows could co-operate they would not be here." 



