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where I have shade they spend altogether too much 

 time fighting flies. If there is no shade, they will 

 spend more time in grazing on the pasture, and I have 

 read in some of the agricultural papers that other men 

 have the same experience. 



Mr. Graham : I think shade trees are a great benefit. 

 I know when I expose m} 7 cows to the sun there is 

 always a large shrinkage in the milk, and I have felt 

 obliged to put them in the barn sometimes when I had 

 no shade trees. 



Convention adjourned to 7:30 p. m. 



Convention met at 7:30 p. m. 



Music, Kewanee Cornet Band. 



DAIRYING. 

 MRS. FRANK GOOD, of Kewanee. 



Among the different branches of farming, there is 

 one that can be made to yield much pleasure and 

 profit, and, at the same time, add to the value of the 

 land ; yet in many localities there is no branch which 

 receives so little consideration as that one — Dairying. 



Perhaps it is because of the close attention which is 

 needed to make it successful ; perhaps on account of the 

 lack of knowledge of the best ways and means of 

 carrying it on, although these can be readily obtained 

 from first-class dairy papers ; generally it is that the 

 farmer thinks it does not pay. If the milk could be 

 at once disposed of, more would engage in the business, 

 but with all the hard details attending the care of the 

 cream, the churning and marketing of the butter, there 



