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WHAT IS MEANT BY RIPENING CEEAM. 

 JOHN BOYD, Chicago. 



Mr. Boyd: Mr. President, it is a well-known fact 

 that the dairy school, or rather our experiment station 

 at Champaign is not up to our sister States, and that the 

 dairy has not received that attention that it deserves. 

 I think there is no good reason for this. Probably the 

 principal reason is that we have not asked for much. 

 We have not called upon those gentlemen and asked 

 them to give us just as good a dairy school as they 

 have in Wisconsin or New York, or in Vermont, or in 

 many of the other States, and I think it is only proper 

 that this association should send a committee down 

 there to confer with the president of the college, and 

 see if we can not have just as good an experiment sta- 

 tion in Illinois and as good a dairy school as in any 

 other State. 



I beg leave, therefore, to move that the president 

 appoint a committee to go to Champaign and see the 

 authorities there and make the best arrangement they 

 can for this purpose. 



Motion seconded and carried. 



The President: I will announce the committee 

 who are to visit the State Board of Agriculture: John 

 Boyd, chairman; II. B. Gurler, J. H. White, W. P. Iios- 

 tetterand, by motion of the convention, the chairman. 



Beading, by Mr. Porter. 



Music, Band. 



Little '" Things," D. W. Willson, Elgin. 



The Convention adjourned to 9:30 A. M. next dav. 



