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Holstein men. Places for 60 were provided at this banquet and 

 63 attended. 



On Wednesday evening Effingham County Dairymen's As- 

 sociation gave a banquet to visitors outside of Effingham County. 

 Places for 300 were provided and all were occupied. S. B. Shill- 

 ing, of Chicago, was toastmaster. 



The regular program commenced Tuesday morning at 10 

 o'clock. Rev. J. G. Reynolds pronounced an invocation and the 

 mayor, Dr. E. L. Damron, gave an address of welcome in which 

 he discussed good roads. Judge John Lynch, of Olney, respond- 

 ed. Judge Lynch spoke of the excellent facilities in southern Illi- 

 nois for dairying and endeavored to point out the things neces- 

 sary to make dairying a success, referring particularly to the kind 

 of man who makes dairying pay. 



J. P. Mason, of Elgin, president of the association, in his 

 address told the dairymen of the southern part of the state of 

 their dairy possibilities and congratulated them on the growth 

 made, particularly in Effingham County, the past three to four 

 years. He told them that the fact of them having at present in 

 this county 500 silos was most commendable, but that the number 

 should be much larger. 



Prof. W. J. Fraser, of University of Illinois, gave practical 

 results as proven from examinations of herds in the state. He 

 showed, by means of charts the dead line between profit and loss 

 in dairying and gave an estimate of cows kept at a loss in the 

 state, compared to the smaller number of profitable cows. He 

 showed how rapidly profits increase as efficiency of the cow 

 increases and that the increased cost of food to maintain the 

 profitable cow was very small in comparison to the increase of 

 profits. 



"Soil Fertility From the Dairyman's Standpoint" was dis- 

 cussed Tuesday afternoon by Prof. Wm. G. Eckhardt, Univer- 

 sity of Illinois. Prof. Eckhardt illustrated his lecture by means 

 of stereopticon views, telling results as worked out on experi- 

 mental plots with various crops and where fertilizing was done 

 according to the needs of the soil. 



"The Practical in Dairying" was discussed by H. P. Irish, 



