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tional agriculture to the State of Illinois, so you see the 

 vocational agriculture paid its way in the State of Illinois 

 in 1925, and these net and total proiits are getting larger 

 year by year, not only in the individual project but for 

 the projects as a v^hole. 



The average net return to the boys last year v^as nine- 

 ty-seven dollars: about one hundred and ten dollars per 

 boy from crop projects and almost seventy dollars per boy 

 from animal husbandry projects. 



I am mighty glad to say that one of the most out- 

 standing of those carried on by boys enrolled in agricul- 

 ture departments was dairy projects, one of the most pro- 

 fitable of which was carried on down in Mr. Taylor's be- 

 loved Egypt. This project was a very successful one and 

 is being carried on year by year, being continued from 

 one class to another, where the boys retail the milk, and 

 they have made quite a successful project out of it and 

 have shown the bulk of farmers in that region that money 

 can be made in dairying. And that is not the only dairy 

 project that has been carried on. 



We do not have the largest agricultural department 

 in the Galesburg High School that there is in the State of 

 Illinois, but we have the best boys to work with. There 

 are a good many of them here tonight, and they will get 

 a lot of benefit from this meeting. I would like to have 

 the opportunity to introduce all of you people to these 

 boys. It has been a great pleasure to me to work with 

 them. I am glad to see a good many of them are inter- 

 ested in dairying and becoming more interested, because I 

 firmly believe that dairying is the coming business of agri- 

 culture today in the United States. 



We were told on the floor of the convention this aft- 

 ernoon that more than twenty-five per cent of the income 

 from the agricultural products of the United States con- 

 sist of income on dairy projects, so that you see it is a very 

 important industry, a thing which the boys enrolled in 

 vocational agriculture are becoming more and more in- 

 terested in. 



I might just say this, that the way of the Smith-Hughes 



