36 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



WEDNESDAY— MORNING SESSION, 



The convention was called to order by the president at 

 ten o'clock. 



On motion, W. W. Bingham and Mr. Gilbert were 

 added to the finance committee. 



The president suggested that the finance committee, 

 in taking the names of members, be careful to get the name 

 and address plainly written so that there would be no 

 mistakes. Ke also announced that he had in his possession 

 a paper by I. EI. Wanzer on the subject discussed the 

 previous evening. 



On motion, Mr. McGlincy was instructed to read 

 Wanzer's paper, which he did, as follows : 



I. H. WANZER'S PAPER. 



Mr, President: "What shall be done to prevent the 

 slaughter of our dairy goods in the summer months?" is 

 a question that has been discussed from time to time, under 

 different headings, in most of our dairymen's conventions 

 ever since they were first organized, and we believe much 

 good has resulted from the same. But never in the history 

 of associated dairying has the necessity of some radical 

 change been so forcibly impressed upon the minds of dairy- 

 men as in the past season. It has positively come to 

 the point where we have got to do some things differently 

 or abandon the business. 



In this paper we will briefly call the attention of dairy- 

 men to some reforms that it would seem easy to put into 

 successful operation. First, we mention the oft-admitted 

 fact that we are making too many of our goods in the sum- 

 mer months. This over-production can, we believe, be 



