576 BOAKD OF AGRICULTURE. 



and Cinciiuiatl— all large centers— calling for more and more milk for 

 ice cream, for retail purposes, and for condc>nsing, to say nothing of a 

 large local market for l)uttor, and shipping facilities unequaled by any 

 western states. There has been a condensing plant established at Center- 

 ville within the past two years; there was one already in the State, and 

 I nndorstand the AmL-oy people have put in a condensing outfit. There 

 is a demand for more milk. Ouv Association should carry to the people 

 of the State a larger knowledge of the financial possibilities of the dairy 

 business. You can't got something for nothing, but if you are willing to 

 work you can get a larger return for dairy work, well done, than in most 

 other lines of agriculture, especially if you consider the value of the 

 manure, as has Just been suggested. We do not know much about dairy- 

 ing, as yet. 



Let me call your attention to what some of our neighboring states 

 are doing to further their dairy interests. In response to the requests of 

 the dairy people the Missouri legislature provided funds for a dairy build- 

 ing, equipment and instructor at their agricultural college, and made pro- 

 vision for traveling Instructors also. 



Illinois keeps one man in the field all the time among the dairymen, 

 testing cows and helping to solve the difficulties which stand in the way. 



Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota each have from one to six men travel- 

 ing from one creamery or factory to another. Canada employs as many as 

 twenty s\ich instructors in some provinces. 



Indiana should make a start in this direction to the end that fewer 

 unprofitable cows may be kept, that our product may command the top 

 of the market. 



Our Association has done good work, to the extent of its resources. 

 Oiir dairy school is just started. The farmers institutes are a help, but 

 we must do more if we are to attain that which is within our reach as 

 progressive dairymen, 



