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must grow into it. Mr. Mason could go in on a $100,000. plan 

 and niai^x a success of it, because he has had years and years of 

 experience, and his ancestors were dairymen, I believe. 



I will go back a little bit and start from the beginning and 

 shuw some of the laws and principles that are behind this sub- 

 ject of b?;rn protection for dairy cattle, why it is absolutely nec- 

 essary. 



AVe were told yesterday by Professor McLean that Brced- 

 iL\C, Feeding and Weeding out were tlie three principal things 

 in th.e dairy business,— I want to add another, and that is Prj- 

 teriion. 



\'ou all know that the barns in this section of the state are 

 not what they should be in every respect. As I came down on 

 the train I noticed particularly in reference to barns that I could 

 see from the car window. Do you know, I hardly saw a win- 

 dow in a barn between Fayette County and Carbondale. 



\Vith all due respects to doctors, the tliree greatest curative 

 agents are sunshine, pure air, and pure Vv^ater — they are the 

 three great curative agents, and that is what we want in the 

 dairy. When the great Creator set this world in motion, He 

 made some fundamental laws, very few laws were made, l)ut 

 they are infinite in their application, and hold good from ihe^ 

 lowest plant to the highest animal. 



The first law I will speak of is the law of development. My 

 mother remembers when the tomato was considered a poisonous 

 plant, afterwards they were called 'love apples," and now see 

 what use is made of the tomato. I am only using the tomato as 

 an illustration of this principle of development. It is just the 

 same with the cow. We saw there hundreds of young men and 

 women at the University being trained. It is the only way, and 

 when we develop in any direction we have got to put forth 

 every efifort within our power to hold it up there after it is 

 once developed. You let the conditions that have brought your 

 boys and girls, men and women, to the present state of civiliza- 

 tion, let it go for a few years, and where are you? W^e revert. 

 It is true all the way through. 



With another law, the law of Compensation, Emersosi, 



