I06 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



We hear a great deal of agricultural^ and from reports we find eight 

 dollars for every man, woman, and child for America and twenty-flour 

 dollars for Denmark — Denmark, a quarter as big as Illinois, and shipping 

 out twenty-four dollars worth of agricultural products for every man, 

 woman, and child in the country. Talk about expansion, I think there 

 is a chance for America to expand at home, right up here in the top story, 

 and we just want to come down- a nd get on our knees and begin with edu- 

 cation in our schools and quit bra gging and get to work. We are going ta 

 ship more and more agricultural productions right albng, but other coun- 

 teries are getting right along too. 



I had a letter on my desk from the Argentine Republic, from some 

 one who wanted to come and study dairying. Twenty years ago the Ar- 

 gentine Republic shipped all the butter they wanted to. Now they have 

 creameries so big that it would make Illinois sick. They have the Bab- 

 cock test. They are training their men and pushing and working in: 

 every possible direction and in this struggle for existence where com- 

 mercial supremacy is the great factor, and you can only get that by edu- 

 cation. They have schools in Denmark to train men who shall go out 

 and represent machinery; they train them in diplomacy; they train them 

 for traveling representatives of commercial houses. They are trained iu 

 machinery, fabrics, etc., and then sent out to sell their cottons, silks, ma- 

 chines, etc., and what are we doing to train our men? Germany is. 

 bothering England today because Germany pervades the whole country.. 

 Great Britain has been trafficing with her ships:, while Germany was send- 

 ing her children to school, and no^v the Germans are sending their ex- 

 ports all over the world and England is waking up. It is a questioni 

 whether she hasn't lost her commercial supremacy by America and Ger- 

 many being opposed to her. 



The point I want to make is, train the boys and girls now to be the 

 best farmers on earth— not a pessimist, but a broad-minded farmer that 

 will get everything out of the soil. Let us go back to Denmark: After 

 Denmark had stood by her professors so nobly and spent so much moneF 

 and made her products world known, what has happened? Today it is. 



