and fifty thousand, but I know, certainly, that there were over a hundred thousand people there.

They talk about making it a horse trotting affair. I don't know of any man who is a farmer but has some interest in horses, and city people certainly have an interest in horses, and if you are going to have good horses you have got to offer some inducements. Now in Milwaukee, with the present arrangement of the speed department, liberal purses have been offered, and good horses will be there to compete for them. A good superintendent has been placed in charge and he will see that there is no jockeying, where a string of horses come in and divide up all the purses and take the whole boodle. Now we offer liberal purses and inducements to exhibitors to come there, and I may state that you will not only have a success next year, as you had last, but a great deal more of a success. We have an exposition in operation at that time. that draws people, and we have a great many other attractions that draw people. But, as I said before, the citizens of Milwaukee are not narrow enough or jealous enough, but what if there is any other place in the state that can offer as good inducements as Milwaukee can, they will say, "go, and we will be with you."

Mrs. M. E. Warren - I don't wish to say where I hope the Fair will be located, but I do wish it might be permanently located somewhere. I visited the fair ground in Toronto, Canada, and as I went through the buildings, I wondered why it was that they could have such elegant buildings; and the thought came to me that there the fair is permanently located in that place. Why can't we do so in Wisconsin? If we move the fair from place to place, of course our buildings have got to be temporary, and they do not furnish sufficient pretection to the animals. A shanty is never as good as a good, strong building, and we cannot have anything but shanties if we continue to move the fair from place to place. And people with valuable horses are afraid to risk their horses in shanties that leak in every rain. Now as to this Fair in Milwankee that was such a failure, if there

are any present that were there they will remember how that storm poured upon us during that Fair. I laid the blame principally upon the weather. I remember that my dress was ruined, my bonnet was washed off my head (laughing), and I had to get another to get home in, but I don't think the Milwaukee people were to blame for that, I blame them since that because they didn't have more water. (Laughter and applause.) Mr. Schoeffel failed to mention all the big institutions there! (Renewed laughter and applause.)

Mr. ArnoldThey didn't have a lack of water. I never saw a more orderly Fair. There wasn't a drunken man on the ground, that I know of, nor a pickpocket. It was a temperance fair, if it was in Milwaukee.

Convention adjourned.

2:00 P. M.

The chairman Ladies and gentlemen, I have the pleasure of introducing to you Professor Haaff, who will now address you on the subject of dehorning cattle.

Mr. Haaff — I am not a professor of anything- unless it be of respect for the ladies - I am a farmer.

Paul, you recollect, says, "let not him boast himself who putteth on his armor, but him that taketh it off." I have met the state of Iliinois, and tried square issues with them, through their humane society, on the subject of dehorning cattle, and beat them. If, therefore, it shall

appear to you in my talk that I am boasting, remember that I am the man who has taken the armor off. Now, I am here to-day to capture every heart that is here. There won't one man go out of this room when I get done, if the Lord spares my life for an hour, that will not be a sound convert to the principle of dehorning cattle-not one. (Laughter.) Oh, there may be some, you know-well, I must take off my coat. (Applause.) Why, the first thing a farmer does is to take off his coat. It is no disrespect on the part of a gentleman, in the presence of ladies, even. if he be a farmer, to take off his coat. (Removing it.)

Now, there may be those, and doubtless there will be those, of the Scribes and Pharisees that will go away and won't acknowledge anything; but they will be converted all the same; I will cut them to the heart. There may be those and doubtless there will be those-there necessarily must be those who, from prejudice will declare against me- that I am unworthy of belief, or even of consideration; that I am a montebank and a crank, but remember this, gentlemen, "the man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still."

You may be curious to know who the speaker is. You are indebted, for my presence to-day, to the persistency of the secretary of the State Board of Agriculture of Wisconsin, as I understand it, and not, to the State Board at all. I owe every state board a grudge from the word go! (Laughter.) And I am able to fight them, and have done it, and am doing it at home. But I don't come here for any fight against anybody; it is not my place. (In answer to a whisper from the president:) No, sir; I take my coat off for the subject; not for the men. Now, gentlemen I shall not waste much time on preliminaries, but a French writer has said that a speaker should be en rapport with his audience before he launches into his subject. Pardon me, therefore, you of all shades of business, whatever you may be, if I say a word personally.

I was for years a teacher; I am still. I dreamed when I was a boy that I would own a farm. I own it. It has four thousand acres in it, and I live in the middle of it. And I am so far away from my neighbors that I can't hear them in the morning when they lick their young ones. (Laughter.) I lived on that farm for over twelve years. I purchased it. And, gentlemen, I had to wade through the waters of hard work and affliction in order to be able to own that farm. And when I went there all the world that knew me, held up their hands-all my personal friends and relatives, and all said, "This time he is beat." I settled in there on five thousand acres that had one knob rising out of five thousand acres of water; and all around me I could hear the "kayunk!

kayunk!" (Laughter), and various other animal noises that I could not repeat here and do justice to them if I tried. Thank God, whose servant I am, they are all gone! and as your professor said last night, two blades of grass grew where one grew before-blue grass grows on two thousand acres where nothing grew but swamp reeds so high that a man could lose himself within eighty rods of my house.

I am now engaged in manufacturing, having a couple of boys big enough to run my farm. I have a new gas engine. I am running it in Chicago. I have got hold of the best thing in the country; and when I have a couple of men with me to put in a hundred thousand dollars, we will make the best thing in world. I am looking for that kind of a man, and if I find him after I get through, we will make it go.

I tell you frankly again, that I don't stand here to boast over the societies of Illinois; not a bit. For their good deeds I honor them, and speak a good word for them anywhere and everywhere, and at all times publicly and in the papers. But when they attempted - I being of Black Hawk Vermont Morgan on my mother's side, with a Dutch Gray bottom on my father's, touched off by Scotch Clyde-which I believe makes about a Cleveland Bay, don't it? (Laughter.) — being of that stripe and of that character, and that blood, I here and everywhere denounce the infamous conspiracy of the board of health and the humane society of the city of Chicago, who attempted to play the Pharisee on a thing because it was new, and condemn a man and beat him unheard and yet I beat them! (Laughter and applause.) I am one of those who, as a farmer, would like to see in every state in this Union, and particularly in my beloved state of Illinois, my cause succeed; and by the help of God, I will fight that battle, with my good friends of the Tribune and Inter-Ocean. My brother here (indicating Secretary Newton) and plenty of others in Wisconsin, I will fight that board and that humane society until such time as they shall recognize the principle, and act upon it, that a man is a man for a' that.

Now, gentlemen, I have discovered a process, accident

ally, and I have never boasted that it was any great thing, but of that judge ye, when I get done - I have discovered a process of handling cattle by which one-quarter of the hay can be saved in winter. Does that seem to you, from the bare statement, to be worthy of consideration? I have discovered a process by which, in these United States, two hundred human lives can be saved every year. Was I out of the way when I said on my trial of four days last winter, that I thought for that God would give me a credit mark at the day of judgment? I have discovered a process, and I can prove to you these things that I say, and will proceed to do it-by which the lives of two hundred thousand cattle and horses can be saved yearly in this country this blessed country, this grandest of all countries! This country which it makes my heart beat with joy to think that I am a humble citizen of, for which I would freely shed my life's blood, if it were a hundred lives, one after another! That's me. Is that boasting? I have discovered, gentlemen, a process by which one-half the manure on our farms can be saved. It sounds dirty, but it is a clean argument. I have discovered a process by which one-half the shed room can be saved. That ought to commend itself to those men, if there are any here, of that unworthy class who don't have sheds. (Laughter.) A man wrote me last week - and my wife sent the letter up to me at Chicago - "Do you think, Mr. Haaff, that it will be safe for me to dehorn my cattle, not having a shed, but having a grove for them to run in?" I wrote him back, "No, never! I am ashamed of you!" A man that. don't own a shed for his cattle I don't care if he is worth five hundred thousand dollars and owes fifteen! It is true, horns would tear them to pieces and injure them, but then, he can get rid of his horns.

I have discovered a process by which all loss in shipping cattle can be saved all loss. And let me dispose of this branch of the subject right here. The Drover's Journal backs me in saying that there is but one way in which cattle can be safely shipped, and that is, in a car that is smooth on the inside, and no horns; with no internal working pro