72 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



tee on dairy exhibits including the working dairy 

 at the World's Columbian Exposition; to formulate 

 plans for making a creditable exhibit at said Exposition 

 and to lay the same before the State Board of World's 

 Fair commissioners, and ask for the necessary funds for 

 carrying out the work; and that said committee be 

 instructed to urge the payment of a liberal sum of 

 money, out of the $40,000 appropriated to encourage a 

 live stock exhibit, to each and every cow sent to 

 the Columbian Dairy School from the State of 

 Illinois." 



Mr. Boyd: Mr. President, I wish to say a word or two 

 about these resolutions. It was my misfortune to be 

 obliged to do some work in connection with the dairy 

 exhibit of the World's Fair, and I think the time has 

 arrived now when we ought to have some understanding 

 from the State Board of Agriculture as to what we are 

 to expect from them. We all know that our legislature 

 has made a very liberal appropriation for the purpose 

 of having the interests of this State properly repre- 

 sented in 1893. Eight hundred thousand dollars has 

 been appropriated for that purpose. Out of this sum 

 $40,000 has been set aside for the live stock depart- 

 ment. Now, I understand, not authoritatively, that the 

 State Board of Agriculture do not consider the dairy 

 cows sent to the Dairy School as coining under this 

 head, or, in other words, they do not consider them 

 live stock. ■ Now, that is a very peculiar construction. 

 These cattle are sent from different States regardless of 

 their breed to be exhibited at the expense of the 

 exhibitor for six months. During that entire six 

 months the product of these cows goes to the World's 

 Fair, and the Exposition pays the expense, so that the 

 individual exhibitor gets nothing whatever from the 



