74 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



If this exhibit is made at all, it must be made in 

 either one of two ways, it must be made by the in- 

 dividual at his own expense, without any kind of 

 return, except the honor there is in it, or it must be 

 made by the State Board of Agriculture, coming from 

 the State, purchasing the butter and cheese, and 

 sending up there on their own hook. I hope before 

 this convention adjourns that decided action will be 

 taken on this matter. 



Mr. Willson moved that the resolutions be adopted 

 and motion seconded. 



Mr. Willson: Before the question is put I want to 

 make some remarks that may help Bro. Boyd in under- 

 standing the question a little more definitely. I am 

 heartily in favor of the resolutions and a strong com- 

 mittee appointed to present them before our State 

 Board. I met the chairman of the committee of the 

 World's Fair Commission of the State of Illinois, and 

 he said to me that he was very anxious that this meet- 

 ing should take some such action as is proposed. I am 

 in favor of having a committee appointed to ask for all 

 that we can possibly hope to get and more 



Mr. Monrad: We have been asked several times to 

 meet the State Board of Agriculture, and we have 

 been kept up with talk and promises, and still they 

 have done nothing for the dairjnng. I should like 

 to see this thing discussed when we have more time. 



Mr. W. R. Hostetter: I think the dairymen make a 

 great mistake as a rule in presenting this matter before 

 the State Board in not making them fully understand the 

 importance of it. We think of the wheat interest as 

 being a great interest in this country, but it is nothing 

 as compared with the dairy interest. I think it is 

 generally assumed that the wheat interest is greater, 



