illO ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



this Illinois Dairy Association. As I sat here today and yesterday I ad- 

 :mired you. I thought jou were a most patient class of people. You 

 have listended to talks and it reminded me of the story of the man who 

 went into the restaurant and ordered a cup of tea. He drank the cup, or 

 tea; ordered another, and drank it; ordered another, and drank it, and 

 ordered a fourth one. By this time the waiter was amused and could 

 .not keep from laughing. He dirank the fourth, and ordered the fifth. At 

 this, the waiter could no longer c ontrol herself and she burst right out 

 laughing. "My good man you muKSL like tea." "You just bet I do, or I 

 -wouldn't have drank all thiswsfTer to get a little bit of tea out o£ It." 

 You sat here patiently the second day, and I hope that at Least you have 

 .got a little out of it. 



The subject I am asked to talk upon today is the dairy cow, how to 

 know her, and how to breed her. This question of how to know the dairy 

 cow is a much more difficult question than many people think it is. 

 About sixty years ago we had a man who was able to tell all about a cow 

 by looking at her, Guereau, but no man has been able to do so since. I 

 .know a man who went from a dairy section and bought up cows and 

 bought them on the length of the tail. A cow with a long tail was cer- 

 .tainly a good milker. If it did not come to the hock it was no good. He 

 bought cows throughout the country. Hisi name was Mr, Austin and was 

 ,a wealthy man, but is today in the New York poorhouse. Whether the 

 length of the cow's tail put him there, I don't know, but he lost money in 

 buying cows. 



You will find men that say they can tell good dairy cows by the dairy 

 form. She has good thin shoulders and thin neck, a dairy cow and a 

 milking cow. 



Two weeks ago I visited a man's farm who advocated that theory. 

 He knew the dairy type. He wanted the thin shoulders. I looked through 

 his sheds; he had the dairy type, but he did not have dairy cows. 



Now, gentlemen, the dairy cow is a cow for the dairy man and her 

 use is to manufacture food into milk. That is what she is for. She is 

 waluable just as she can produce .or convert .food into milk. If she can 



