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exhibit to show the resources and industries of the 

 State of Illinois. There were committees appointed 

 for all the different departments to supervise the differ- 

 ent departments and the exhibits to be made. There 

 is a committee on agriculture and dairying. Those are 

 comprised under one committee, and we have, as a 

 board, considered all these questions from all the infor- 

 mation we could get from all the different depart- 

 ments. We have had members of the Dairymen's As- 

 sociation at our meetings, we have consulted with your 

 president and some of your members as to the nature 

 of the exhibit they wanted to make and the cost of the 

 exhibit, and, of course, the committee wanted to make 

 every exhibit they could, and they wanted to get as 

 much money as they could. I live in the Elgin dairy 

 district. It is one of the leading industries and one of 

 the main branches of agriculture that is carried on in 

 this State, and I felt especially interested and I was 

 anxious to have an appropriation made that would be 

 large enough so that a creditable exhibit could be 

 made of the dairy industry in the State building, and 

 we asked for an appropriation of enough of the money 

 which was appropriated by the State to cover the de- 

 partment of agriculture and also dairying. We suc- 

 ceeded in getting $40,000 set apart for agriculture and 

 dairying, and there is where the matter stands to-da} r . 

 Now, I think the State Board is favorable to giving 

 just as much of that amount as they can to the dairy 

 industry, and we want to be in better condition to 

 know what this dairy association suggests before we 

 decide that matter. There is another question. The 

 National Commission do not propose to allow any 

 manufactured goods to be shown in any of the State 

 Buildings. Now butter and cheese are manufactured 



