ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 15 



instructing the general public to know pure dairy products and 

 how to manufacture the same, is to be especially praised. I be- 

 ileve firmly that the best way to develop the dairy business and 

 lift it out of the prevailing slavish methods, is to educate the 

 general public how to judge and appreciate good dairy products. 

 The housekeeper will demand a better quality of cream, milk 

 and butter when advised of the importance of sanitary methods 

 in the care of high grade dairy products. The city milk supply 

 men will have to provide the educated customer with a much 

 higher grade of milk. The butter maker can best advance his 

 interests by an aggressive campaign of education concerning the 

 poorly handled hand separator cream. Let us all endeavor to 

 obtain better prices for dairy products and make them well worth 

 the money to the consumer. 



Prof. Frazer is conducting some valuable and much needed 

 experiments in the feeding of dairy cows and calves, at the Agri- 

 cultural College and at several points in the state. He expects to 

 get more good men in the field as instructors to aid the farmer 

 in improving dairy conditions. The men he has now employed 

 in the field are excellent men and are doing efficient work, but 

 he needs more of them. Let us urge the necessity for more 

 field work in every dairy neighborhood and use all our influence 

 as an Association and individuals to send to the farmers' door 

 the practical instructors, who can demonstrate how to make th^ 

 dairy farm a more prosperous business proposition and a bet- 

 ter manufacturing plant. 



At the State Dairymen's meeting in Rockford, two years 

 ago, we instructed our President not to appoint an advisory 

 committee, as heretofore provided for in the Experiment Sta- 

 tion appropriation bill. I hope this Association will, at this meet- 

 ing, reconsider this action and instruct its President to appoint 

 this advisory committee, as provided for in the new bill for ap- 

 propriation as drafted for the College of Agriculture, which will 

 become effective the 1st of next July. I believe much good can be 

 derived by the dairy industry and the college by having this 

 dairy advisory committee appointed from the ranks of active 



