74 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



TUBERCULIN TESTING IN ILLINOIS 



Mr. S. J. Stanard, Director of Agriculture, Springfield, III. 



Mr. President, members of the Illinois State Dairy- 

 men's Association — friends: I arrived here last evening 

 just in time to see the Scotch performance from this plat- 

 form, and it reminded me of an incident that happened a 

 few days ago ; when I came here this morning and saw the 

 number of empty seats in this room, I was again reminded 

 of that same incident. I spoke of this only a few days ago 

 in a meeting at Champaign, so some of you may have 

 heard it. 



A week ago last Sunday morning the pastor of the 

 church I occasionally attend said that he wanted to in- 

 crease his Sunday night attendance. A good many Scotch 

 attended that church — I am part Scotch myself — so the 

 pastor announced that there would be no contribution re- 

 quested at the Sunday night service. In response there was 

 a large attendance. After the opening prayer, habit being 

 very strong with this minister, he made his usual announce- 

 ment that the deacons would now take up the usual col- 

 lection and that a liberal contribution would be appreci- 

 ated. A Jew in the back end of the house fainted, and 

 two Scotchmen carried him out! (Laughter.) 



When I arrived here the iirst thing I heard was a 

 request to talk on a certain subject, and ever since I have 

 been here I have been receiving requests. The first re- 

 quest was that I talk on the Department of Agriculture, 

 explaining the functions of that department. In fact I have 

 received several such requests. I have also received re- 

 quests that I talk on the bovine tubercular situation in Illi- 

 nois, which seems to be consuming considerable space in 

 the columns of our Chicago daily newspapers. I have 

 agreed to talk on both of these subjects, and I have de- 

 cided that I will talk on the functions of the State Depart- 



