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it. this work is being undertaken. We have at that time at the 

 university a number of men of national reputation along* the 

 lines of agriculture, and we arrange our classes so the students 

 in dairying attending the two weeks' convention can hear those 

 men along the line of general work in agriculture on some 

 speeial line more or less remotely connected with dairying. I 

 think our buttermakers largely are not taking advantage of the 

 instructions along the line of general agriculture; they are not 

 making that progress in agricultural science they should. They 

 confine their attention largely to this one narrow groove. It's 

 a good thing to be a good buttermaker, but a man who confines 

 his attention exclusively to that thing gets narrow; he cannot 

 have that same interest in his patrons that he could if he had 

 more information and could give them advice about the sanitary 

 production of milk, about the economical production of milk, 

 about growing the crops, filling the silos, and all the things 

 of general interest to 'dairy farmers. If he knows something 

 about these topics his field of usefulness is much broader and he 

 can keep his patrons, and can get them to supply the kind of 

 milk he wants, without such hard work than if he were simply 

 a buttermaker and confined his work entirely to the factor}'. 



We want to make these two weeks' conventions successful. 

 We have programs here on this desk and I should be glad to have 

 you take one. We take up dairy work in the broadest sense so 

 that if a dairyman comes to the university who is not so much 

 interested in the manufacturing of the milk into butter as in 

 the production of the milk, he can devote his time to the ques- 

 tions relating to the production of milk; another man interested 

 in manufacturing can devote his attention to this line of work, 

 so we try to meet requirements of all, whether producers or man- 

 ufacturers of dairy products. 



The college of agriculture can be helpful to the dairymen 

 through its regular college work. The most of this work I have 

 spoken of is special, but then we have the regular four years' 

 college course leading to a degree. We have students entering 

 the university with the idea of taking this course and graduating 



