ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



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WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON SESSION 



By the President : — Meeting is called to order. 



We will now have the report of the Advisory Committee by 

 Mr. Irvin Nowlan. 



Minutes of the conference between the Director of the Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station and the Advisory Committee of the 

 State Dairymen's Association. 



The conference met at 2 :00 p. m. (May, 1903), at the Office 

 of the Director of the Station at Urbana. There were present of 

 the Advisory Committee: H. B. Curler, DeKalb ; A. N. Abbott, 

 Morrison, and Irvin Nowlan, Toulon. Absent : M. Long, Wood- 

 stock, and L. A. Spies, St. Jacob. 



Professor Fraser was asked to meet with the Committee and 

 present the needs of the work. After a lengthy and careful dis- 

 cussion his recommendations were adopted practically as read. 



It was thought wise to recommend that Mr. Glover's salar}! 

 be increased to $2,000 a year. 

 To the Advisory Committee of the State Dairymen's Association : 



There are at the present time, four definite lines of work 

 which should be pushed strongly in the Department of Dairy 

 Husbandry. These are, field work, dairy manufactures, the econ- 

 omic production of milk, and the sanitary improvement of dairy- 

 ing, especially as relates to the production of milk. 



1. Field Work. This has been conducted in northern Illin- 

 ois for nearly two years. A year's test has been completed with 

 eight herds comprising 135 cow^s, and nineteen herds containing^ 

 653 cows are being tested during the present year. In addition 

 to the work of testing, Mr. Glover has made many helpful sug- 

 gestions as to changes of feed, etc., whereby milk could be made 

 more economically. 



