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so difficult to present so that everyone can comprehend 

 its importance. We should try to obtain the views of 

 practical dairymen, creamerymen and cheese makers. 

 It is only once or twice a year that so many of us are 

 together. We should exchange our views freely. Our 

 state can not afford to let any other state make a bet- 

 ter showing of the dairy industry. Illinois practically 

 controls the butter market of the United States. We* 

 must show to the world just what we have. 



SOME SYSTEM. 



We should have some system by which we could 

 communicate with the dairymen over the entire state. 

 A correspondent of the association in each township in 

 the state who is posted and interested in dairy matters, 

 to whom the association could write for information, 

 would be a great help. 



A PAMPHLET. 



A pamphlet issued by this association giving a few 

 facts in regard to dairy matters, with suggestions in 

 regard to starting, equiping and running butter and 

 cheese factories might be of use. A person conver 

 sant with dairy matters would be astonished to see 

 some of the letters I have received, asking -questions 

 that show how little is known about simple matters. 



DAIRY SCHOOL. 



But I think the most important thing for our asso- 

 ciation to consider is the matter of a State Dairy 

 School in connection with our University and Experi- 

 ment Station at Champaign. 



Dairying requires more skill than any other branch 

 of farming; a dairyman must be a farmer and stock- 

 breeder and the better he is posted in these branches 

 of farming the more successful he will be as a dairy- 



