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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



The Chairman : We will now take up the discussion 

 that was interrupted last night in reference to the ap- 

 pointment of a committee suggested by the committee 

 on the president's address. 



With the consent of the association, I will invite 

 the gentlemen present who come as a committee from 

 the State Board of Agriculture, Mr. Wyman, of Syca- 

 more, and Mr. Dysart, of Dixon, to state the situation 

 from their standpoint. 



Mr. Wyman: I judge from the talk that I heard 

 last night that some of these gentlemen did not have 

 very much of an understanding of the situation, so far 

 as the dairy interests are concerned, at the World's 

 Fair. There are two or three phases to this question, 

 one in regard to the dairy exhibit to be made in the 

 Illinois building. As you well know, there is a national 

 department, where they expect to have a large dairy 

 exhibit of the dairy industry of the United States. We 

 also have a State building, where we expect, or want 

 to have, an exhibit of the dairy industries of the State 

 of Illinois. From the resolutions that were introduced 

 here last night, I judge that the opinion seems to pre- 

 vail in the Dairymen's Association that there had been 

 a division of the money that was appropriated by the 

 State of Illinois, already made, and there had not been 

 any appropriation made to the dairy interests of this 

 State. Such is not the fact. The situation is pretty 

 nearly like this : The money was appropriated for a 

 State exhibit. It is not a competitive exhibit, it is an 



