18 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



JOINT DAIRY SESSION. 



Wednesday Forenoon. 



The joint session of the Round-up Institute and the State Dairymen's 

 Association was held in the College Armory. The meeting was called 

 to order at 9:45, by Hon. Fred M. Warner, of Farmington, president 

 of the State Dairymen's Association. After an invocation by Rev. H. B. 

 Bard, of the Church of Our Father, Lansing, President J. L. Snyder, of 

 the College, extended an address of welcome to the visitors. He urged 

 all to take occasion to visit the laboratories and lecture rooms of the 

 College and see what work was actually being done. He called especial 

 attention to the dairy herd of the College which contains representatives 

 of more breeds than any other herd in the country. 



It is, indeed, well that the farmers should regard the College as a sort 

 of shrine, a Mecca to which they should make occasional pilgrimages. 

 Whatever opinion one may have of book farming, were it not for educa- 

 tion we would still be inhabiting log huts. 



In his response, President Warner of the Dairymen's Association, 

 expressed on the part of its members, their appreciation of the work 

 at the College. The association has frequently met at the College in 

 previous years and has never failed to profit by what they are able 

 to see of its work as well as from the addresses by members of the 

 faculty which always form an important part of each program. 



Nothing that the State has done has been of more general and direct 

 benefit to the farmers than the Farmers' Institutes and they should be in 

 every way fostered and encouraged. 



DAIRY COWS AND THEIK PROPER CARE. 



BY COLON C. LILLIE^ COOPERSVILLE. 



The modern dairy cow is the result of long years of careful selection 

 and breeding for the purpose of producing an animal that would con- 

 vert the food grown on our farms into dairy products at the least pos- 

 sible cost. The same care has been exercised in selecting and breeding 

 -the modern beef animal, but for a different purpose. It is the duty of 

 the beef animal to consume the food produced on our farms and store 

 it up in his body in choice cuts of beef. Originally, away back in cattle 

 history, there was but one breed and one type, that probably bred true 

 to this type. This breed had the inherent ability to produce both flesh 



