1-02 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



of Illinois upon the practical work and upon your patriotic man 

 that your executive officer has been the past year. The dairy 

 interests have gone forward in leaps and bounds since he took 

 his seat, not only in your dairy association, but at the Station at 

 Champaign. We hope the work will be a continued success 

 for the promotion of your interests. It is a movement that inter- 

 ests you all, and at this time and in this connection I want to 

 call attention to a short dairy course at the University, commenc- 

 ing on January 21st and continuing over until February 2nd. 

 It is proposed to give two hours a day to the testing of milk, ten 

 lectures on good and poor cows, and a lot of other instruction 

 that will be very valuable. In order to be successful in your call- 

 ing, the first thing necessary is to have profitable cows, and how to 

 handle them to the best advantage. It is not expected that many 

 of you here that are actively engaged in the conduct of dairy 

 herds can go there but there is not a single neghborhood that you 

 can't find some active young man that would be very glad to go 

 down there and take the course of instruction, and then come home 

 and give all the people in his neighborhood the benefit of that 

 treatment. Let all the young men who would go and take that 

 course think of this. After they had passed a satisfactory exam- 

 ination they should be given a diploma by, the University, in test- 

 ing cows. It is one of the important matters, and you can con- 

 sider that. Every one of you should gather together and say, 

 ''Where is the best boy to send down there?" Pay for his ex- 

 penses, it will not be more than Ten or Twelve Dollars for you, 

 but when he returns he will be worth thousands of dollars to 

 you for the information he will gather there. 



Professor Fraser has some of the programs of this short 

 course and if you will ask him he will give you one of the pro- 

 grams and will give you any information that he possibly can. 



Before I take my seat, I want to tell you how pleased I 

 am to be here. It was my honor and my privilege to order the 

 Will County Institute in the early days of Institutes in this state, 

 and I well remember the stormy day we had and the crowd 

 we had in the Court House and we held it in fear and trembling, 

 but one and another of the intelligent farmers and their wives 



