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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN^ ASSOCIATION. 
impart and receive knowledge, learn to distinguish a good 
and profitable cow, know the comfort of a seat on a milking 
stool, and not get mad if butter from the same churning 
don’t take both first and second prizes in the same class. 
“ The wind bloweth where it listeth,” etc. He should 
know enough not to put colts and steers and cows into the 
same pasture and yards and expect a profit from the cows. 
He should have eyes to see that by letting a lot of hungry 
hogs run with his cows, in order to save the droppings, he 
does not give his cows a minute’s rest for turning feed into 
milk. It implies that the dairyman has a farm which is 
either excellent for grass or otherwise adapted to produce 
both grass and grain. In the first ca.se he may profitably, 
as a rule, buy more or less grain to supplement his grass, 
and in the latter case he would probably feed the grain he 
raises. It implies that the dairyman does not live either in 
Alaska or Florida, if I am rightly imformed about the cli¬ 
mate of these two localities. In short, it implies that tlieie 
is a general and intelligent adaption of means to the end to 
be accomplished. 
As to the future, I never considered the foresight of 
the person, who claimed to see far into it, established. He 
sometimes pretends to see a long way, but usually, like the 
cross-eyed girl, acts as if looking somewhere else. Theie 
undoubtedly will be ups and downs —mostly downs , prob¬ 
ably, as it will appear to each one with respect to his own 
business. There is no more prospect of free tiade in money 
than of free trade in general. Money will not be allowed 
to become in fact as practically in law a commodity as well 
as money, nor will it be permitted to perform the simple 
duty of exchange, useful for currency, but comparatively 
useless as a commodity merely. The banking function, so 
called, would be interfered with. A whole class of money 
issuers would thereby lose their occupation. 
There is no probability of another war to send butter 
up to fifty cents per pound and more. The Boises, the 
Wanzers and the Elginites are not going to sell their butter 
for ten cents a pound more than the rest of us can get. 
They will have to ride in the omnibus . We doubt whether 
the dollar-a-pound customers are to increase, but the con¬ 
sumers of good butter will, and there will be more of it. 
The dairyman’s dish will not probably be always right side 
up ; but if he be neither fickle nor foolish, he may catch 
