50 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



and bitter affliction, and consolingly points them to Him 

 who " tempers the wind to the shorn lamb " and careth 

 for the sparrows ; and, be it 



Resolved^ That a copy of these resolutions, signed by 

 the president and secretary of this association be sent to 

 the family of the deceased, and that they be printed in the 

 journal of proceedings. 



John R. McLean, 

 Thos. McD. Richards. 



The president announced that he had just received 

 a telegram from Gov. Cullom, which he read as follows : 



Springfield, III., Dec. id, 1879. 

 Dr. Joseph Tcfft : 



I have not been able to leave home to attend your con- 

 vention. Hope you will have a pleasant and profitable 

 session. I regret that I cannot be with you to-day. 



S. M. Cullom. 



Question No. 7 was brought up again, but as noth- 

 ing was said on the subject, it was passed, and 



Question No. 8 — '* The defects in the management of 

 the dairy business in this state; what are they, and how 

 can they be remedied ? " — taken up. The following paper 

 by Israel Boies, on this subject, was then read by the sec- 

 retary : 



I. BOIES' PAPER. 



Gentlemen : I feel" that I have not brains enough to 

 do justice to this subject, and were it not that you have 

 selected three other men to address you on this question — 

 able men, — I would think the subject would fare slim. It 

 would be like offering skim cheese in a full-cream cheese 

 market. But to the subject. First — a want of system, too 

 much slip -shod work, cows neglected, irregularity in feeding, 

 irregularity in milking. I say that half of the cows that 



