84 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



I have kept these facts until this year. There are men if 

 they had known it would have left us long ago. They have had 

 opportunities enough. Man after man has been offered five to 

 eight hundred dollars additional salaries; they have stayed be- 

 cause they have faith in the state. We have men that would not be 

 there if they had known the facts last year; but now we have to 

 let it be known what the actual conditions are. 



Another thing, it is well known, and it has been known for 

 sixty days ; if it had been known two years ago our faculty 

 would have been raided by other institutions. We have shinned 

 around by keeping our affairs to ourself. If you want a College 

 of Agriculture you must get busy and get the money. It is a 

 shame for this state that Wisconsin is putting up more money 

 for her agricultural college than you are for yours. There is 

 more desirable property in Cook county than there is in the whole 

 State of Wisconsin. Michigan puts up more money than Illinois 

 ever did. The time has come when we must get some money, 

 and it is a question that is going into the millions. 



The State of Minnesota will ask for an appropriation of 

 $1,600,000; that is something to think about. How are we go- 

 ing to get along with less than $100,000 under these circum- 

 stances. I will tell you just as I said this summer, if that is what 

 the people of Illinois want, I am through talki.ng. It is not my 

 fault. If you kill out a college and have only an experimental 

 station left the young men will have to go to other states ; that is 

 the first thing that will happen. These things are not known to 

 our student bodies. We are keeping up the best outside appear- 

 ance we can, but this is the first thing that will happen. The 

 Illinois men will go to other states to get what should be taught 

 here. 



We are preparing copy for a catalog and that will soon go 

 to press. Some courses will be withdrawn because the state will 

 not put up the money to teach nor put up the buildings to house 

 them. This will go all over the country. It must corne out this 

 spring. Your boys will have to go to other states. 



The next thing that will happen is this. This experiment 



