80 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



I have traveled in this state 150 miles and have spoken to fewer 

 people than I had in my classes. We must think this out. What 

 are these meetings : they are farmers' institutes, schools in con- 

 nection with the farm school, some are schools running for a 

 week and some are special meetings. We are scheduled to give 

 twelve addresses in Chicago. They want us to come to Bloom- 

 ington and help stir up an improvement meeting. It is a good 

 thing but we cannot understand why there are such a tremen- 

 dous number of meetings held. 



Besides this we are co-operating with the railroads in run- 

 ning educational trains over the state. We frequently speak to 

 1,600 people in a day, have one lecture in one car, another in 

 the next and so on, stay about forty minutes and then move on. 

 Some people think we are about like "Injun rubber" men, that 

 we can stand anything. I was up until midnight last night, and 

 traveled until 7 :oo this morning. I am here now, then I go to 

 Chicago, get a sleeper and go to business at 8 :oo in the morn- 

 ing. You do not know how these men are working; that is not 

 exceptional. 



I have made a rule that I am trying to have enforced, that 

 no man shall be up after 12:00, and not be up in the morning 

 until 5 :oo. Some of our people are breaking down, and I will 

 tell you why it is. Under this system we must run on a different 

 basis. 



I came to talk about reorganization. These are some of 

 the things this College is doing. What are some of the phases 

 connected with with this situation, the College of Agriculture 

 and the Experimental Station? The difference is this, the agri- 

 cultural college is that portion that teaches agriculture to the 

 students and to others, the experimental station is that part of 

 the University that conducts experiments and publishes bulle- 

 tins. They both attend meetings. 



It so happens of these two, the college and the station, the 

 experimental station is more public than the college that teaches 

 students and attends to the business of instruction day by day; 

 it is so much more public that of the money which Illinois is 



