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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
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works in her labratory, cannot some of the room on the farm be givt 
to like culture ? Even at the expense of time, so valuable on tl 
farm : even at the expense of hard-earned money ; where could it 1 
better spent ? Money spent on the farm cannot be squandered in tl 
city. If half the money, worse than uselessly expended in the cit 
could be used for the improvements of country roads so that soci 
life on the farm could be facilitated, the world would be by far th 
better off. For there is room for the most social of homes on tl 
farm, and a cultured hospitality attracts a cultured society. > 
It is not to be supposed but that the farm would still have to spa] 
some of her sons for the world’s work. There is no better place f< 
a country’s statesman, men of science, art and letters to be schook 
than on the farm. And the country could afford to pay liberally f< 
the schooling. ‘ _ j 
No poets ever sang sweeter than those who first learned with tl 
birds on the farm. The truest art is the product of the country, 
was the shepherd boy, Giotto, who, taken from his flocks on the hi] 
side to Florence, overturned the gastly Byzantine art, degraded to tl 
last degree, and founded the era of modern art on nature and beaut 
The country-is always the guardian of the city, and creates ar 
preserves, while the city is undoing. Men, like trees, grow stout( 
and better-balanced singly ; and the farmer should compare with tr 
city-bred man, as the splendid oak, lord of all the sun and room it Cc 
use, compares with the spindling trees in the heart of the fores 
Above all the products of the farm sent to the world’s marts, inca 
culably more valuable than good grain, fine fruits, or sweet, pure mi] 
and butter, are women ; helpful, healthy and true-hearted ; and me 
with nerves, and sinews and brains, country bred.- 
And, though lacking collegiate training or foreign polish, abo^ 
all gentlemen, in true dignity, stands the real country gentleman. 
ARE BUTTER AND CHEESE THE FULL MEASURE C 
THE VALUE OF MILK ? 
BY GEORGE P. LORD, OF ELGIN. 
Mr. President: We are to consider whethei all the valuab 
qualities of milk are utilized in the production of butter and cheese, ; 
that the market value of those products will represent the value 
milk. Since the introduction of the “Factory System'’ it has becon 
more and more evident that dealers in milk are fixed in their deterr: 
ination to establish the market price of that article on the amount • 
dividends paid by the “ factories,” rather than on the intrinsic value >| 
the milk. Ml 
This, then, is a practical question, and one worthy of our consi) 
eration. It is our purpose to take the aggressive side of it. w 
affirm that butter and cheese which absorb only a portion of the va 
uable qualities of milk, do not represent the full value of the milk ; ar) 
we further affirm that there are valuable ingredients in milk which a: 
not, and which cannot be incorporated in either butter or cheese. 1 
is not our purpose to fix the actual value of what is left of the mi. 
after the butter and cheese are taken from it. We only propose 1 
