98 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



the betterment of the farmer, many of them apply equally to 

 every citizen in the state. Municipal and sanitary dairying, while 

 incidentally benefiting the producer of milk, have for their object 

 the purifying and rendering safe the milk supply of the state, 

 and thus affect to a many times greater degree the inhabitants of 

 the cities. Landscape Gardening, which has for its primary ob- 

 ject the embellishment and adornment of the home grounds, 

 affects each citizen equally. The same applies to Floriculture. 

 The raising of poultry is becoming more and more a work car- 

 ried on in the suburbs and outskirts of the cities. The conserva- 

 tion and increase of the forest areas, and the timbering of lands 

 which are now waste touches all citizens both by the increase of 

 resources and by the influence upon the water supply. House- 

 hold organization and activities and household sanitation and 

 health, are subjects which apply alike to every household in the 

 state. The work of the College, therefore, both in a broad way, 

 as has been shown, and in many specific ways, applies to all citi- 

 zens of the state and cannot be regarded as favoring one class at 

 the expense of another. 



It is a fair assumption that in the extent of money invested 

 in agriculture and in the bulk of its agricultural products, Illinois 

 leads all the states of the Union. The committee has given 

 weight to this fact and yet has not attempted to create a com- 

 petition in expenditures for agricultural education, or to recom- 

 mend that our state make expenditures in proportion to those 

 made in certain lines by states of lesser importance, but it has at- 

 tempted to find out what is realy needed and to recommend 

 such expenditures as will enable the College of Agriculture of 

 Illinois to meet the proper demands of the citizens of Illinois. 



For the Committee, 



W. X. Rudri. 



