FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 77 



amount had gradually increased to $74,000,000. This is all 

 outside money that is distributed among the people in that coun- 

 try. Do you know about the condition of that country today? 

 They are in possession of great wealth. Today they are not 

 doing all the hard work on the farm themselves, but when the 

 harvest time comes they send for the Polish and Russians, and 

 if the Europeans continue the present war then they will event- 

 ually employ the Germans, the French, and the English because 

 these latter nations will not have any money and they will have 

 to earn their income wherever it is available. 



I want to bring this to you because it confronts us all. If 

 you want to take the fertility of your good Illinois soil and 

 ship it to Europe, all right, do it. If you want t,o ship it any 

 place, send it to Denmark, because that is my native country and 

 I would rather you would sell it there than anywhere in Europe. 

 There are other countries looking to us for fertility. Ireland, 

 where they have 800 creameries in only one-half of the coun- 

 try, has formerly been considered as a country where they 

 could not grow crops, where it was not possible to make a liv- 

 ing. Today as a result of dairying they will import feed stuff 

 and what has been accomplished in Denmark will be repeated 

 here, perhaps at the expense of the Illinois soil. 



Sanitation in production of milk should also be emphasized. 

 Milk is the most delicate and the most important food produced. 

 Sixteen per cent of the amount of food that you consume is in 

 the form of dairy products and it is up to you to see that it is 

 produced under the most sanitary conditions. You will be in- 

 terested in knowing how milk is produced in Holland. Coming 

 into a farm house in Northern Holland we first came into the 

 living rooms on the left side of the hall, and after looking 

 through all the rooms the lady of the house asked if we wer«j, 

 interested in seeing the cow stable. We crossed the hall and 

 through a door entered into the stable. We did not find a coav 

 stable there as in this country, it was as clean as any room in 

 the house. Another thing, on one side of the stable were large 

 windows because they fully realize that a cow must have plenty 

 of light and ventilation in order to produce satisfactory re- 



