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capacity for several hundred spectators. The results 

 of the tests made of the different dairy breeds, together 

 with the individual merits of each cow of each breed 

 represented, will be embodied in the report of the - 

 superintendent, and will be of almost priceless value 

 to the dairy interests of the State and nation. 



This business is generally considered a fairly pros- 

 perous one, but it is only made so, on the part of many, 

 by long days and years of laborious toil and drudgery. 

 Within a radius of 60 miles from Chicago, one of the 

 main branches of the industry is the shipping of milk 

 to supply the demands of the city. It necessitates 

 leaving warm beds at 3:30 or 4 o'clock in the morning, 

 sometimes with the mercury 20 or 30 degrees below 

 zero ; rain, mud and slush make no difference. 



The farmer, hired help, the boys, and frequently the 

 wife and daughters have to rally around the milk pail, 

 not once, but twice every day, and 365 days, 5 hours, 

 45 minutes and 45 seconds every year. Is it any won- 

 der that under such conditions hired help is difficult to 

 keep, and that the wife, sons and daughters want to 

 move into town ? The greed of some farmers for more 

 land is proverbial, and is only equaled by the greed of 

 many dairymen for more cows. Anything giving milk 

 is a cow with many of them ; they never stop to con- 

 sider whether there is profit in her, but regard her as 

 another cow to make more milk, to sell for more 

 money to buy more cows with. If the lessons taught 

 at the dairy department of the World's Fair shall result 

 in weeding out unprofitable cows, and in the dairymen 

 keeping only those which will pay a good profit — if it 

 shall aid in systematizing his work, so that it shall not 

 necessitate 16 hours work a day, and that more profit- 

 able results may be obtained from ten cows than are 



