IO ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
believe the factory men commit an error in not stamping their pack¬ 
ages with their names, place of business and quality ot their goods. 
If this was universally done the purchaser could step up and pur¬ 
chase his supplies with much confidence. 
It does not appear reasonable that the manufacturers would suffer 
by so doing if they put upon the market an honest article. No man 
should follow for a moment a profession or calling where honest deal¬ 
ing will not give him ample support. He owes this to himselt, to his 
fellow man, and to the world at large. 
The Chair appointed the following Committees:— On Nomina¬ 
tions— S. W. Kingsley, A. Thompson, O. S. Cohoon— On Finance— 
E. C. Hawley, E. J. Oatman, Chas. E. Wood, Mesdames H. C. Ed¬ 
wards, D. C. Adams, and George Giddings. On Obituary —J. H. 
Broomell, C. H. Larkin, H. C. Edwards. 
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THE COW IS QUEEN AND HER PRODUCTION IS KING. 
BY O. S. COHOON, OF BELVIDERE. 
Ladies and Gentlemen :—I do not expect to prove to you that the 
cow is Queen and her production is King, entirely by statistics alone. 
Neither in a commercial view of the matter alone. But by various 
methods such as her moral power to the human "family. Her finan¬ 
cial betterments to the human family, and to the farm; and by the 
farm where her production reaches to an immense value. 
A very few years ago, it was said that cotton was King and it 
seemed that possibly it might have had that kind of a tendency. Be¬ 
cause it under took to manage our government, and used immoral 
efforts to legislate the freedom, and the rights of liberty , from a large 
mass of human beings. And now like all other things, time and 
death, levels the would be king of tyrany. This King taught no 
morals. But the cow the queen, and her productions, the king, we 
propose to show you have given us moral lessons all the way up, 
from time immemorial. 
Let me stop a moment and take you back in your imagination to 
some remote time in history, or better, only back in the memory of 
many a father, and mother of this association, and draw a little true 
picture that has transpired in their time to prove the great moral 
worth of the cow. Many of you remember a long time ago, when 
Obadiah was one and twenty years old and came and took Susan Jane 
(for some unacountable reason) for better or for worse, and emigrated 
way out West into the State of New York to make a home of their 
own. 
With hardly clothing enough to make moderate weather comfort¬ 
able, with a small lot of house hold goods, which mother had divided, 
and possibly an old horse that father could spare, an old ax, and a few 
little traps that would make life possible when landed in the deep, wild 
forests of Western New York, or on the far distant prairie in its prim¬ 
itive days. At this juncture Susan Jane and Obadiah with strong 
hands, take hold of life with energy and zeal and build a little log cas¬ 
tle in the forest; and a glass one in their minds for the future. And 
