ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



life in a coal mine, with a very limited common school educa- 

 tion. having 1 been taken from school when only ten years old to 

 work in a coal mine. After a while he learned the carpenter 

 trade and worked some years at that trade in Chicago, but he 

 was not satisfied with that, he wanted further advantages. He 

 felt that his education was limited, and he wanted to take a 

 university course. You might have thought he would have taken 

 s< >me technical course, would have gone into the engineering 

 c Lirse; because he was working at carpentering that he would 

 a course in some way identified with his trade. But he 

 had a fondness for agriculture, and went into the Agricultural 

 G 'liege. Because of his lack of early opportunities he went 

 into the preparatory classes, and the man was then married, with 

 a family. He opened a little grocery in the city and with the 

 profits of that paid his expenses, maintained his family and gave 

 himself an education. A man handicapped as that man was, 

 with a young family and without any advantages in the way of 

 education in early life, has obtained a university education and 

 will graduate in June. Any boy or girl in the state of Illinois 

 can obtain a university education if he wants to. The fees are 

 low. cost of living is not high, and the way is not hard for those 

 who really desire a university education. 



Some students do not take four years course in four years ; 

 they have to work to get money to pay their expenses as they go 

 al< >ng. It may take six, seven or eight years to graduate, but 

 finally they get through. So, I say, a buttermaker, or dairyman, 

 • r anybody, can if he wishes, obtain a university education. 



I might say something about our equipment at the Agricul- 

 tural College. In the first place I want to speak about the ex- 

 periment station or college herd of dairy cattle. We have in 

 cattle there, as you learned last night, a very fine herd of 

 steins. We shall hear something more about this. Then 

 we have representatives of the Brown Swiss, the Guernsey, Jer- 

 sey. Ayrshire and Short Horns, so the students can see and learn 

 to know and may compare these different breeds. 



The students handle the cattle in the stock judging pavilion. 



