ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



I don't know how many of you attended the World's Fair, 

 but I know before the fair opened there were a number of letters 

 sent around, and I received one asking me to make an estimate of 

 how many persons I expected would attend the fair from Wis- 

 consin. It seemed to me rather an absurd question to ask anyone 

 and have it answered rather fairly. I was somewhat surprised 

 to read in the newspapers at the close of the fair that there was 

 a total attendance of twenty-two millions. I presume that does 

 not mean twenty-two million different people attended, but the 

 total admissions was twenty-two million. 



If the World's Fair visitor arrived at St. Louis and left 

 the Central station on the north, took the Market street car going 

 west to the end of the line, he would arrive at what is called the 

 agricultural entrance. I presume some of you took the trip and 

 went to the fair in that way. 



At the agricultural entrance, in the early months of the 

 fair, after you passed through the gate, you had to traverse 

 quite a long field before you arrived at any of the fair build- 

 ings. About the first of August they began to put up what 

 they called the " cattle barns " for accommodating stock that 

 were competing for prizes in the show-ring; but previous to 

 the first of August about all that was in that section of the 

 grounds were four dairy barns. These barns were built as 

 soon as any of the larger buildings at the fair grounds, and 

 one was occupied by one of the herds of cattle sometime before 

 the opening of the fair. 



The dairy cow test at the world's fair is going to be one 

 of the essential features of an American World's Fair. I pre- 

 sume some of you remember the dairy tests that were made 

 at Chicago where they had three different herds competing, of 

 twenty-five cows each — the Jersey, Guernsey and Short Horns. 

 They had four different tests — a ninety day cheese contest, a 

 ninety day butter contest; another fifteen days, which was for 

 -younger cattle, and a fourth that was to demonstrate the milk- 

 ing qualities, consisting of solids not fat in the milk, as well 

 as the milk. At the close of the Chicago exposition a great 



