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says, that we make no advancement without giving up some- 

 thing else. We have got to give up something to make advance- 

 ment in something else. 



Take the cow, when she was created she gave just milk 

 enough to supply her calf ; she was not a beef animal nor a dairy 

 animal, but a wild animal. Through all generations she has 

 developed to what we have now. I think in India they have 

 been developed into carriage animals. But in the dairy cow we 

 see the wonderful, almost unbelievable progress that has been 

 made in that direction, but it can never be held there unless the 

 environment is right for that cow, and we watch out for the 

 breeding, feeding, weeding and protection of the dairy cow. 



, Now, the barns of Southern Illinois are certainly not a 

 credit to us farmers. Any of you gentlemen who have money 

 deposited in the bank, or if you go to your local bank and de- 

 posit your money, would you go to a bank where you knew it 

 would be wasted? The barn is the farmer's bank, — it has beer, 

 called so by other people, for there the farmer deposits his 

 crops, stock and some of his tools, and most of all, perhaps, his 

 labor. Now, those barns, many of them, have cracks up and 

 down the side. You would not deposit your money in a bank/ 

 in that condition, would you? The dairy cow's present develop- 

 ment cannot stand that. It is a grand thing that these business 

 men are furnishing money for the farmers to buy cows, but you 

 will need that or some other money in protecting and caring for 

 the cows for they will not be a success until they are cared fo^r 

 properly. 



The Indians could live through the worst blizzard out) 'in 

 their tent; I never heard of any freezing to death. Could you 

 and I take our families into a tent under like conditions, and 

 Hve? You turn the dairy cow out into the cold winds, as cows 

 are treated in this southern country, and she cannot be a dairy 

 cow. That is just a little illustration. 



A few years ago, along in March, the sun was sh,ining 

 brightly and the south side of the barn seemed the most pileas- 

 ant place on the farm, I turned my cows out. I always test the 

 milk and keep an accurate record, and when I turned those 



