ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. ^ ^ 



dollars it pays to encourage them, when younger ones, we used to be 

 glad to get ,half of that. 



The best cows we have are raised from the calves we get, and when 

 we can get forty to sixty dollars for them, it pays to raise all our heifer 

 calves. The beef men are chasing after us for our steer calves at five 

 to ten dollars at one to ten days' old. Two years ago they did not want 

 them at any price and had to make veal of them. 



They talk some about the Holstein steers, but they take them all the 

 same; it's a steer and we have the milk. 



We cheesemakers Iiave to feed new milk to raise calves and cheese 

 at twelve and fourteen cents makes us feel a little stingy of our milk ta 

 raise good steer calves. 



One thing that makes us choese fellows feel good is that we have 

 been recognized as a part of this Association on the premium list. The 

 last ten j-ears I have had to come and carry my cheese on my back; the 

 premium would not pay the express on them both ways. 



It is true there is not much difference between the butter and cheese 

 dairy to produce the milk the cheapest and get the best quality. That 

 is what we are after. It takes good milk to make cheese as well as but- 

 ter, and the richer the milk the more butter or cheese we can make. 



The first time I met with this Association was at Elgin in 1871. I 

 think then the cheesemakers had the lead. But skim and filled cheese: 

 got us under. Now we are coming to the front again. When we get for 

 two pounds of cheese what you get for one pound of butter, we are get- 

 ting the best show, as it usually takes about the same amount of milk to 

 make a pound of butter as it does three pounds of cheese. 



Song by Hon. Jules Lumbard. 



I wish to assure this Association of the great pleasure I have in 

 meeting you all once again. Wc have met for more than twenty years, 

 and that cannot go on forever. I am expecting any time to be pro- 

 moted to a higher office and probably in a hotter ciimate. But will have 

 a good lime as long as I can and as long as I stay. 



Responded to an encore, by saying he would sing again that evenings 



