,Q4 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



music is firm and elastic; their bayonets glisten in the bright sunlight 

 of the early morning. Far at the head of the column, bending with the 

 morning zephyrs, is carried the flag of their choice. Suddenly, without 

 warning, there i& a noise like the roaring of many rivers, and hundreds of 

 brave m^en are ushered into the halLs of death. The enemy has surprised 

 them. 



In the State of Illinois, there are 250, OOOi dairymen marching to pros- 

 ?perity. Their farms for the most part are models of thrift and ingenuity. 

 No mortgage holds its grasping h and upon them. And should you ask 

 them to what they attribute their prosperity, no doubt they would make 

 .answer, "The Cow." 



a Lesson in Feeding the Dairy Gow 



W. A. HENRY, DEAN COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND DIRECTOR 

 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, MADISON 

 WISCONSIN. 



Ladies and Gentliemen: I have a double purpose in visiting your 

 'City tod^y, for I not only wish to talk with your people on dairy mat- 

 ters, but to visit once more the sights and scenes which in one way may 

 tbe styled, the startling point of the Babcock milk test. Ten years ago 

 I stood on this platform discussing dairy subjects with the members of 

 the State Dairymen's Association. After the day's sessions were over, 

 when we were gathered in the hotel a number of creamerymen came to 

 .me and pleaded for a milk test. They stated that the centrifugal separ- 

 .ator had made the pooling of milk possible so far as skimming the cream 

 was concerned, and that it had been demonstrated that from the milk 

 .^gathered on many farms first quality of butter could be made. The trou- 

 ible was, however, that so long as milk was paid for by the hundred 



