130 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



DAIRY COW DEMONSTRATION. 



By Mr. T. A. Borman. 



I really consider that what I might have to say now would 

 be superfluous. 



An indictment stands against me by your worthy presi- 

 dent as to whether he milked more cows than I did up to the 

 age of 30, but I will talk that over with him personally. 



The statement made by Mr. McLean is true as long as we 

 live here day after day, generation after generation and we find 

 ourselves fifty years of age and no farther ahead. 



Following a talk on breeding I was asked by a man "What 

 do you think of using Hereford bulls on Jersey cows?" Why 

 it would be a good beef combination and would not hurt the 

 milk any. They don't seem to think that anybody else has ever 

 lived in this world besides themselves. 



I am ashamed of the fact that I did not have an agricul- 

 tural college education. One of the regrets of my life is that I 

 have not had the opportunity in that respect that hundreds of 

 other men have had, and the only reason that I did not have 

 such an education was because I stuck to the cow. (Applause.) 



Now, then, my information was absorbed, it came from 

 observation, it came from books and papers, and I wonder if it's 

 a crime. I mention that frequently to point this lesson. There 

 is not a boy in this house, or county, or in the State of Illinois, 

 who, if he can't or won't attend the agricultural experiment 

 station of this state who need go without that knowledge ; he 

 can learn as much as I ever learned and the chances are he will 

 learn ten times more, if he sets his mind to it. There is t^f.iat 

 ray of hope for the young man — he can if he will. 



I was born in central Kansas and you fellows have all 

 heard about the grasshopper days? I was born in that state. 

 The hard times did not cease with the grasshoppers. There 

 were devilish hard times along about 1880 when the farmer 



