ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



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it to their pupils. The young folks are hungry for this information, and 

 you can interest them in it just as well as you can interest them in corn 

 raising. The two should go together. 



I believe the Agricultural papers could use the head of their dairy col- 

 umns to no better advantage than by placing there a few of the more sim- 

 ple rules on butter making. As a reader of Hoard's Dairyman, it is inter- 

 esting to note how often the same question is asked, and is one of the 

 reasons why I came to the above conclusion. I don't see how anyone 

 can keep up-to-date in dairying, unless he takes at least one good dairy 

 paper. 



At our last annual meeting, resolutions were passed asking the several 

 breeders of dairy cattle in the State to organize and send their represen- 

 tatives to meet with us. I know some work has been done in that line, and 

 I feel hopeful that much good will c>me to all concerned, if this is worked 

 up. I can report progress and recommend to continue the work until the 

 best animal of any dairy breed can be purchased in Illinois. Is not a dairy 

 animal "Live Stock"? If so why don't our breeders work with the Live 

 Stock Breeders Association? And as Chicago is the best marker for any- 

 thing that has value in live stock, 1 am sure the dairy breeds would receive 

 just recognition and regular saie days. I thank the gentlemen who have 

 interested themselves in this work and anything this Association can do 

 to help them, I am sure will be done to the best of our ability. 



During the past year, I have had communication with the President of 

 the State Board of Agriculture and some of its members, and showed them 

 that the dairymen of Illniois were not given proper quarters on the State 

 Fair grounds, either to display their products, or, what is more necessary, 

 to show the thousands who visit the "Best Fair on Earth" how to manufac- 

 ture butter. I have recommended to them that they erect a dairy buildin? 

 of such capacity that both butter and cheese can be made before the public 

 view, and a suitable refrigerator to exhibit both dairy and creamery butt ?r 

 and cheese. I am nieased to report the suggestions were received with fa- 

 vor and they had already a committee who have reported favorably after 



