ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



and had to quit because they got all the boys. We will soon 

 have, not only the steam railroad, but electric roads and the only 

 thing we need is hard roads, and in a community paying out half 

 a million dollars to the farmers — where you can buy land from 

 $30 to $50 an acre, and I say to you that the only regret that the 

 executive committee have in this meeting is that we could not 

 carry out the idea we wanted to, to take you visitors over this 

 country and show you our land and improvements and show you 

 our dairy barns and how we care for things as compared with 

 the northern part of the state. I want you to tell your friends 

 with that $150 land and trying to make a profit, tell them to 

 come here where they can buy cheaper land and make more 

 money. 



It is not necessary for me to go into the discussion of how 

 to take care of dairy cows. I see many of the city people here 

 and they are not interested in the direct care of milk and mode of 

 taking care of the dairy cow, but they must be interested in the 

 farmer making money because they try to get it as soon as the 

 farmers get to town, and they would be bored with remarks along 

 that line. 



We expect to learn at these meetings a good deal about 

 dairying, and I am a little surprised that you should have a dairy 

 meeting or a farmers' instituting meeting in this state without 

 having our good sisters on the improved cooking questions. 



On the Appropriation Committee at Springfield there v/as 

 Judge Sherman who is a very slim gentleman. He weighed about 

 130 pounds, lean, lank and long, but very brilliant, and we had 

 up one day the appropriation for the Fair Grounds, and the lady 

 was asking for an appropriation of $50,000 for the Women's 

 Building and Domestic Science. One of the ladies got up before 

 the Committee and said it was necessary that we should have 

 Domestic Science schools in the state that they might teach the 

 boys and girls how to cook. When they used to cook bread in 

 those long loaves and three or four in a pan, of course you could 

 not cook the starch globules in the middle of the loaf, and after 

 she was through telling us that, a member of the Committee 



