S6 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN's ASSOCIATION. 



days a mold whose creeping filaments were previously observed, ap- 

 peared on the first and after one more day upon the second but the 

 third became wholly dried before tlie mold fruited. This mold 

 proved to be mucor mucedo. 



Other experiments confirmed the announcements made by 

 others that the bacteria are disseminated slowly through the air 

 while mold fungi fly readily everywhere. The former are especially 

 distributed with liquids and remain though dried in contact with 

 solid surfaces, ready to commence action at anytime nutritive sub- 

 stances reach them. The minutest quantity of old milk, not thor- 

 oughly scalded, may infect any bulk of fresh material. 



The following paper, by G. E. Morrow, Professor of 

 Agriculture, Illinois Industrial University, was read : 



DAIRYING AS A PART OF GENERAL FARMING. 



This meeting is held in a part of the state in which the dairy is 

 a leading agricultural interest, if indeed it be not decidedly the chief; 

 and in a city which is most widely known as a "dairy center." The 

 active and influential members of the association are those who are 

 directly interested in dairying, as their chief or exclusive business. 

 It is natural and proper that most of the discussion should be on the 

 topics in which the experienced dairymen — those who make milk, or 

 butter or cheese production or sale their chief or only business — feel 

 the greatest interest. But we should not forget that over more than 

 three-fourths of the state, on a very large majority of the 200,000 

 farms of the state, dairying, in the sense in which those present use 

 the word, is almost of quite unknown. Yet, of the 700,000 cows, in 

 round numbers, owned in Illinois, at least a majority are found out- 

 side the " dairy region " of the state. Many of these are owned by 

 residents of towns and villages, and many others by farmers who 

 keep them mainly for rearing calves, often not milking them at all ; 

 but we still have an immense production of milk and of butter by 

 those who never think of themselves as dairymen, and are never 

 thought of as such ; and who manifest little interest in the proceed- 

 ings of such associations as this. 



It is also to be remembered that dairying, as a somewhat prom- 

 inent industry, is spreading into new sections of the state ; that many 

 farmers who have grown grain, or beef, or poik, as their only pro- 

 ducts, are thinking whether the dairy does not off"er better profits. 



