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Study, in other words, the holding of a practical dairy school in every 

 dairv community in the State. Unfortunately the bulk of the butter pro- 

 duced in Missouri is made on the farm with appliances and under condi- 

 tions that practically prohibit that uniform quality and high grade that 

 best meets the demands of the market. If by the work at the institutes 

 and with the traveling dairy car the quality of the farm butter shall be 

 improved so that its selling value is increased only a cent a pound, the 

 direct benefit to the State will be more than the entire effort to build up 

 dairying has cost since it was begun by this Association thirteen years 



ago. 



Second. Investigation by the Experiment Station. The whole 

 range of butter making, cheese curing, feeding of dairy stock, compari- 

 son of different grains and forage plants for milk production, the raising 

 of calves on skim milk, the best use to make of the by-products of the 

 dairy, in short, any of the important problems that are now confronting 

 the dairyman will receive careful attention. 



I hope that the dairymen of Missouri will feel that the Dairy De- 

 partment of the college belongs to them and that they are free to call 

 upon Prof. Eckles for. any assistance that he may be able to render them 

 and that the success of the new dairy school rests partly with them and 

 partly with us. I trust that we may continue to have your hearty co- 

 operation and assistance to the end that we may develop the greatest 

 dairy school in the greatest dairy State in the Union. 



BUTTERMAKIXG AS A PROFESSION. 



(Prof. G. L. McKay, Iowa Agricultural College.) 



]Mr. Chairman : 



This is an age of combinations and concentration of capital. It is 

 also an age of specialists. The general purpose man must necessarily 

 fall to the rear. Every man should be educated along some line of busi- 

 ness. While I am a strong believer of adaptability, I can not think that 

 the man who has made a success as a specialist would have made a fail- 

 ure at any other business if he had applied the same energy and thought 

 to it. 



Success in any business never comes by chance or luck. Chauncey 

 Depew, being asked by a young man what was the secret of success, 

 replied: "My boy, there is no secret to it. It is just dig, dig, dig." 

 Edison, being asked to give the definition of genius, answered: "Two 

 per cent, is genius and ninety-eight per cent, is hard work." On another 

 occasion when this great inventor was asked if he did not believe that 



