^S ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



REMARKS. 



Professor C. D. Smith, Agricultural College, Mich. 



Mr. President, Members of the Illinois Dairymen's Association: 



By express mandate of the governor, I convey to you his 

 good wishes. Michigan is particularly fortunate in having in 

 the gubernatorial chair the president of our State Dairy Associa- 

 tion ; Illinois could well go and do likewise. We have both a 

 splendid governor and a splendid president of our dairy associa- 

 tion in one man. 



By virtue of my relation to the State Dairy Association I 

 bear you, also, the good will of that association. I come from a 

 state where the work of the association is quite different from 

 that carried on by this association. I bear the good will of men 

 who are studying the same problems as you are — the produc- 

 tion of the best quality of the best dairy goods at the lowest 

 price. 



I want to say something, like the Irishman, before I begin 

 and, a good deal like another Irishman, I am apt to put my foot 

 in my mouth before I open it. 



Mr. Glover is an old student of mine. I will not say all of 

 the knowledge he got in the dairy line he got from me, but I 

 helped start him off. Some of your best university men, your 

 grand men like Davenport, Mum ford, and Holden (not now of 

 your state but further west)' are graduates of our institution, so 

 the brains that come from the institution partially come from 

 Michigan. 



The Cow Owner Side of the Creamery Proposition. 



Since Mr. Glover is to spend a half day in discussing the 

 form of the dairy cow and its relation to the milk production, I 

 am going to eliminate that part of my paper relating to dairy 

 farm. He will present the matter much better than I could do. 



