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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



cow, the buying idea is fast going out of date, unless a man is a borni 

 trader. 



Many good dairy herds have been established in my district by se- 

 curing a good sire and saving the heifer calves from the best cows. 



While the creamery is not the success it should be in Southern- 

 Illinois, nor the success it may be mado, there will soon come a day whens 

 our creameries must pay Elgin pi ices for cream. I tell you when we 

 get guaranteed Elgin prices and good roads and oleomargarine out of the 

 way, we will make a good showing. 



The lack of creameries in my county is doubtless due to the fact 

 that the demand upon us from the city of St. Louis is too great to make 

 a creamery pay. The milk thai is in demand, the goods that are adver- 

 tised, the thing that the people of St. Louis want is 'Illinois miik," ari:?i 

 the dairy companies of that city have enough business ability about, 

 them to get daily, from our side of the river, about 10,000.gallons of our 

 product. While the prices paid, the sours made, the shortage reported,, 

 the cans lost, are not always the pjl'v-asantest things for the shipper to 

 think about. 



I do not hesitate, after ten years' of experience with these people, to- 

 say that there is no line of farming that I could have followed, that 

 would leave the farm in as good shape at? it is today, that would have en- 

 abled us — wife is in this too — to have as many comforts in our home, to- 

 pay off as much debt, to have so nice an account in the bank, as this. 

 Moreover many neighbors, who were struggling along, have joined the* 

 ranks and joined the shippers' piocession. 



All has not been smooth sailing. When going into the dairy we- 

 thought there was nothing more to learn about the business, as farm work- 

 was the only thing we had ever followed. Now, after a practical experi- 

 ence of ten years, we look and wonder if we are only infants, and what, 

 the next ten years may bring forth. 



Say! If you are a dairyman and don't like the business, get out of it. 



Say! Are you kind to the cows? You should be in partnership 

 with them. 



