3o ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



TUESDAY EVENING SESSION 



Meeting called to order by President. 



The Greenville Quartette has kindly offered to give us some 

 music. Encored. 



By the President. — We have with us the President of the 

 Buttermakers' Association of Illinois, Mrs. H. P. Purviance of 

 Lincoln, Illinois. 



ADDRESS. 



By Mrs. H. P. Purviance, of Lincoln, Illinois. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen. 



Dairying has become a science, and only a man that has 

 studied all the dififerent methods and plans can succeed in farm- 

 ing. The time has been when all a farmer had to think of was to 

 raise corn, wheat, oats and grass, formerly he did not have to 

 think of the soil or whether he could raise enough to feed his 

 stock and pay expenses. 



There are very few farms in central Illinois that are not 

 worth from $100 to $150 per acre. The question naturally arises, 

 liow can I farm this land ? How can I farm it so as to make it a 

 paying investment, and at the same time keep up the fertility of 

 the soil. There is no way in which the fertility can be preserved 

 better than in dairying and especially by making butter, for it is 

 a known fact that in selling butter one sells the least possible 



