26 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



The Committee on resolutions will be Mr. H. B. Gurler, 

 Lovejoy Johnson and George Caven. 



The Committee on Nominations will be appointed tomorrow 

 morning. You understand that all resolutions have to go to 

 the committee before being read, so anyone having resolutions 

 he would like passed will please hand them to the Secretary or 

 the Chairman of the committee. 



The next on the program is an address by one of the younger 

 professors at the University, who has been doing field work 

 largely the past year in the St. Louis district. We will call on 

 Professor Hopper. 



AMONG THE DAIRY HERDS IN SOUTHERN iLLINOIS. 



Professor H. A. Hopper. 



During the last decade no line of human interest or activity 

 has made greater progress than has agriculture, and in no branch 

 of agriculture has there been manifest more genuine interest and 

 achievement than in dairying. This may seem a bold statement 

 but when we come to consider the great strides that have recently 

 been made in dairy investigation and instruction, in all parts of 

 the country, and compare this progress not only with that made 

 in other lines of agriculture but with other occupations of men 

 as well, we must accept it. This is as it should be, for dairying 

 is fundamental. It is the thing in which we were all first 

 interested and the one which must claim our constant attention 

 so long as we face the necessity of producing cheap and whole- 

 some food. Milk and its products, butter and cheese, make up 

 one of our large groups of human food, but their use is not as 

 great as it should be. Beef is called " Man's Imperial Food." 

 It's use is universal, and will continue to be so for some time to 

 come, but when economic conditions force us to a point where 



