ILLIKOIS STATE DAIEYMEW'S ASSOCIATION. 31 



On motion, Iseael Boies was instructed to cast tlie entire 

 vote for M. H. Thompson for secretar}^, and he was declared 

 elected. 



On motion, C. C. Buell cast the entire vote for H. W. Mead 

 for treasurer, and lie was declared elected. 



The following county trustees were elected, whose duty it 

 is to gather dairy statistics in their respective counties, and 

 collect such other information as may be of use to the Asso- 

 ciation : 



Kane county— J. E. McLeak, R. P. McGlhstoy, E. G. Ketchum. 



Cook " — HoK. John Wentworth, Dr. Kennicott, A. H. 

 Dalton. 



Boone comity— Judge L. W. Lawrence, B. Cornwell, T. E. Munn. 



Iroquois " —David Brtjmback, W. E. Kimbloe, W, H. Mann. 



De Kalb " —Hon. Wm. Patten, Dexter Severy, A. Lovell. 



Ogle " —Israel Boies, Byron ; Jeremiah Davis, Junction ; 

 Wm. Baker, Junction. 



DuPage county— Dan'l Dunham,. Ira Albro, Peter Pratt. 



McHenry " — E. H.Seward, Dr. J. Woodward, T. McD.Bichards. 



Stephenson '' —John Smallwood, S. F. Henderson, John Swenza. 



Clay county— Thos. Wilson; B. B. Ingraham, Gen. L. B. Parson, 

 Flora. 



Whiteside county— Jas. Howland, Eobt. Galt, Joshua Anthony. 



Knox county— A. G. Miller, Oneida; S. C. Wood, C. J. Ferris, 

 Galesburg. 



Topic Ko. 1()~" How can we improve the dairy interests of 

 Illinois ?"— was now taken up, when Israel Boies, of Byron, 

 read the following paper: 



ME. BOIES' PAPEE. 



How can we improve the dairy interest of the State of Illinois? 



First, by making it pay better— better cows, better care, and last but not 

 least, better manufacturers. All the cows of the Korthwest only average 

 about 3,000 pounds of milk each. This does not pay. There is not a think- 

 ing, figuring man in the State who would go into dairying if he thought he 

 could do no better. There are men who do far better. How do they do it? 

 First, by selection of cows ; next, by care ; anything that is worth doing at 

 all is worth doing well. 



It costs, in the ordinary way of keeping a cow, twenty-five to twenty-seven 

 dollars per year ; will 3,000 pounds of milk pay this bill? Forty- two dollars 

 and a half will keep a cow first-class a year, and that cow, if a good one, 



