140 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



The bank that I am connected with shipped in between 80 

 and 100 head of cattle. We have sold them to those farmers 

 on time at 6 per cent and they are gradually liquidating the 

 notes given for them. These cows have been sold at actual cost' 

 and expenses. 



We had the worst drouth we have had in years year before 

 last and those cows left one of the farmers a little profit yand 

 feed the remainder of the stock. Another farmer who is pres- 

 ent here this evening, a progressive and up-to-date man, as the 

 one I have just referred to, bought ten heifers and ten or twelve 

 cows, he has one of the males, so has another in another groupj 

 and I got a letter from him a few days ago and he said, in the 

 terms of the great statesman, ''I am delighted with my cows," 

 and in that letter he enclosed a card calling his farm ''The Egyp- 

 tian Guernsey Farm" and he had some fine chickens advertised 

 and other things with his letter head. I wrote back and said 

 that I thought he was getting a little fastidious, but keep it up ! 

 He went with me last spring into Wisconsin to buy cows, and 

 when we got up into Northern Wisconsin he was so delighted 

 with the cows there he wrote back and said ''For fine farms, 

 fine Guernsey cattle, and beautiful milk maids, Wisconsin has 

 the world skinned." Every man that has bought cows is well 

 pleased. 



In the last few days since we have had some sunshine I 

 have taken a half dozen orders for cows to be purchased later. 

 There is hardly a day that a farmer does not come into my of- 

 fice and ask about wanting to buy cows. The movement is 

 started and I don't believe it can be stopped, and the observa- 

 tion of the business men who have had a chance to deal wdth 

 these men who are milking cows claim that every indication 

 points to the general good of the man that is milking the cows. 



We expect to see the vicinity of Centralia a dairy section. 

 We observe too that the herds are increasing and the men are 

 asking for larger herds and handling more cows easier than 

 they handled the few in the beginning, it is a matter of edu-; 

 ':ation, and we have asked the pure food commissioner to send 

 us a man and he has volunteered to do so. It is one thing to 



