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tion will doubtless appear] in the treasurer's report. My work has been in 

 connection with this convention, the expense of printing, advertising, and 

 other expenses incident to getting up a state convention. The money that 

 has come to me for this convention has been derived from memberships, 

 from the advertising in our programme, and from the contributions we al- 

 ways get from the city in which our convention meets. None of these mat- 

 ters have been closed up yet. The memberships have come in quite freely, 

 I think, and are somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 at the present time 

 who have paid in. That, however, does not include all the old member- 

 ships of the association. There should be from 200 to 250 paid in at this 

 convention. 



When the business of this convention is over, and all its demands are 

 cleared up, then I will make a detailed report of all receipts and expendi- 

 tures, as far as they are made by me, and will submit it to the directors, and 

 after their approval, it will be printed in the 1899 report. 



I expect to try also to get into that report a complete list of he creamer- 

 ies of Illinois. That is not a very easy undertaking, but such a list will be a 

 valuable part of the report if it can be secured. 



The former Secretary, Mr. Monr ad, began an effort to get together all 

 the reports of this asociation from its beginning. I expect to continue that 

 effort, and hope to complete it, so far as the reports are in existence. This 

 is the twenty-fifth annual meeting of the association. Some of the reports 

 were not printed at all, and on the part of some of the secretaries no e'f- 

 fort was made to preserve the reports, so that it will be impossible to get a 

 complete file, but we shall get as nearly a complete collection of those re- 

 ports as it is possible to get. We sh ould arrange to have them kept in 

 some one place. The way it is now they pass from secretary to secretary, 

 and. that is not a very safe way. 



The attention of the secretary has recently been called to an appropria- 

 tion which the University of Illinois is asking of the present Legislature, 

 the amount of appropriation being $150,000. Its purpose is for an agricul- 

 tural building, part of which is to be devoted to dairy education. The im- 

 portance of this matter should be recognized by every one connected with 



