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an obstinate or ignorant man in a community may frustrate all the 

 efforts of his neighbors by electing to keep diseased cattle after the 

 State has expended thousands of dollars in cleaning up the herds all 

 around him. 



That the State can be cleared of this disease is amply proven by 

 the individual herds who have had part or all of their cattle killed and 

 now keep their herds clean by proper sanitation and frequent testing. 



DAIRY EDUCATION. 



This is a subject which I particularly wish to bring to your atten- 

 tion at the present time, as it is one in which we are all deeply inter- 

 ested. You are all more or less familiar with the good work done in 

 years past by the Dairy School conducted by Professor Hills at the Ex- 

 periment Station in this city, and I am sincerely grieved to learn that it 

 must be discontinued for the want of suitable buildings. 



This is indeed a sad state of affairs, especially in a State whose 



chief industry is dairying and where we justly pride ourselves on 



having superior educational advantages in other branches. 



And I am sure that you intelligent farmers only need to have it 



brought to your attention in order to remedy it by erecting a set 



of buildings suitable for a permanent dairy school that will be an 



honor to the State. 



FORESTRY. 



There is every evidence of an awakening on the part of our citizens 

 to the importance of this subject. Farmers all over the State are asking 

 about the best methods of caring for the wood lot, and the best kind 

 of trees to encourage or plant in the waste places to be found on 

 nearly every farm, and as this problem affects the dairy farmer fully 

 as much as any other, we have secured the attendance at this meeting 

 of the one man in the country who is acknowledged uy all to be an 

 expert on the subject, Hon. Gifford Pinchot, Chief of the Forestry 

 Division, Department of Agriculture, at Washington, who will address 

 us this evening, and I hope to see this hall filled to overflowing, as it 

 will be a rare opportunity to hear this subject discussed by one who is 

 thoroughly master of it. 



President Aitken: — The next article on the program is "Dairying 

 as a Special or Co-operative Industry," by M. W. Clark of Williston. 



