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Animal Husbandry, Dairying, Field Agriculture, Veterinary Science, and 

 Horticulture. In each of the different lines the instruction was of neces- 

 sity hampered, owing to lack of equipment and assistants. All that could 

 be done in Dairying was along farm dairy lines in the handling of milk, 

 and making of butter, and this with only a limited number of students. 

 There have been no facilities for work in cheese making. 



The last legislature appropriated $150,000 for an Agricultural and 

 Dairy building and set aside a portion of the revenues of the University, 

 amounting to about $25,000 a year to be used in giving instruction along the 

 Ikies of technical agriculture. 



Plans for the buildings and courses of study have not yet been definite- 

 ly arranged, but it is not too much to say that there will be an equipment 

 in agriculture and dairying second to none in the United States, and on in- 

 creased corps of instructors affording superior advantages to the student. 



The work that has been done in the University Dairy has been 

 thorough, though oniy a small feature of the university work. In the 

 future agricultural subjects are to receive a much larger share of atten- 

 tion and it is not too much to hope that within a few years Illinois will 

 not be behind any of the states in agricultural education. 



The present dairy will be a good start toward helping Illinois to take 

 a leading position in dairy education. 



Choice speciments of Holstein-Friesians, Jerseys, and Shorthorns, with 

 a few selected grades, comprise the University herd, which, bred to the best 

 sires obtainable, is maintained as a breeding herd of a high order of ex- 

 cellence. 



The health of the animals is kept constantly in view. They are fre- 

 quently inspected by the professor of veterinary science and are occas- 

 ionally tested for tuberculosis, thus making the milk safe for infant use, 

 without being either pasteurized or sterilized. 



In summer a shady pasture, in winter a clean comfortable barn and 

 exercise in sheltered yards, always with selected feed and the purest 

 water, insure the most perfect conditions known for the production of 

 wholesome milk. 



