ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 265 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 



Letter of Transmittal 2 



List of Officers, 1898 3 



List of Members having paid their dues for 1898 4 



By-laws of the Association 7 



Prayer — Elder C. W. Alexander 11 



Address of Welcome — N. G. Ziebold 12 



Response — J. E. Miller 13 



Secretary's Report — J. H. Monrad 15 



President's Annual Address 18 



The Profitable Dairy Cow— Prof . C. F. Curtiss 23 



Winter Feeding" of Dairy Cow^s in Southern Illinois — L. A. Spies, 42 



Ensilage and Shredded Corn Fodder — L. A. Spies 47 



How to Increase the Profit of our Dairies — H. B. Gurler 55 



How to Keep the Boys and Girls on the Farm — Mrs. Mary A. Mayo 62 



Practical Demonstration in Modern Farm Buttermaking — Mrs. R. A. 



Pethebridge 69 



Does Dairying Pay in Southern Illinois? — W. K. Lyons 78 



Creamery Buttermaking— C. T. Miller 85 



Home Life upon the Farm — Mrs. Mary A. Mayo 89 



Variations in Milk — Prof. W. J. Eraser 94 



Milk Preservatives — Prof J. B. Weems 103 



The Alkali Test for Determining the Lactic Acid in Cream and Milk — 



Prof. J. B. Weems 108 



Cheapest Milk Production or how to Make Butter at a -Food Cost of 



eight cents per Pound — A. G. Judd 110 



The Reason for Elgin's Supremacy in the Butter Market — Joseph 



Newman 126 



Address and Paper on City Milk Supply — R. A. Pearson 135 



The Hen and the Dairy— Mrs. M. Sauer 150 



