ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 213 



dairymen almost 40,000 feet of space in which to exhibit not 

 alone machinery and utensils, but butter and cheese. 



There will be erected a model dairy, which will be in opera- 

 tion during the session, 200 feet long and those who are interested 

 than just to see, can come inside and get all the good out of it 

 they can. This building will contain in the first place a testing 

 room for making all kinds of tests. It will contain a fully 

 equipped cheese factory and model farm dairy, a dairy that any 

 man can come there and learn something from, and if you will 

 all come there and take a good look around and go home and 

 equip a dairy like that you will all make more money from your 

 cows. We will also have all kinds of separators running and 

 you can see for yourselves which is the best. We will do churn- 

 ing and skimming and pastuerizing, and will also have a sanitary 

 milk plant. This will be in operation every day. There will be 

 shipped in from five to ten thousand pounds of milk every day, 

 besides what we get from the herds. That is all as far as the 

 Exposition is concerned. We hope you will all be there so I can 

 fill you up with buttermilk. If you haven't got a button you won't 

 get any buttermilk. 



I want to say a word as a citizen of Illinois and ir.r'Jre^tcd 

 in the dairy industry. I make my living out of it one way or ihe 

 other. This state in 1899 was the third state in the utiicu in 

 size and value of dairy products. You produced 31 million dol- 

 lars worth of dairy products. Only two other states ahead of you, 

 New York and Pennsylvania. The great state of lowci was be- 

 hind you and only produced about 29 million dollars worth. 



Illinois produced, I think, something like three or foiir 

 million dollars worth of horticulture, fruits and flowers and nuts 

 and everything that comes in that line. I am tread"ng on some 

 people's corns and I may get shaken up, but I don't care. But I 

 do know that they have got $14,000 set aside for horticulture, 

 and they have been trying to get $15,000 for dairying and can't 

 get it. 



New York is going to have a beautiful display in a prominent 

 place and they are going to have this fine display and don't get 



