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we will only meet the real issues, we can be perfectly safe in eating here; 

 our milk as free from taint as it ought to be, and in all probability the 

 barn will be a place for this kind of thing. 



I have been announced to talk on the topic of " Caged." Put these 

 living, active organisms into some kind of position where they can't get 

 out; put them out at one side behind the bars and we shall adopt the 

 essential feature of cleanliness in regard to health. 



A little time ago in our southern countries, if we would go through 

 New Orleans and many cities nearer than that you would get a strong 

 smell of carbolic acid around, the streets. Apparently they thought they 

 were destroying the germs of yellow fever, but they were not doing what 

 they ought to have been doing. They ought to have been attending tot he 

 mosquitoes; catching the mosquitoes which carried the disease. And 

 we too, if we did these things which ought to be done under the circum- 

 stances we could have the most excellent cleanliness here with the cows 

 just as well as in the scoured kitched or parlor, with the upholstered fur- 

 niture full of dust, or with the dust beaten out occasionally. Indeed I 

 don't know but what things are more favorable here. I don't know as 

 we will ever set the fashion of making the cow barn the dining room, but 

 I do believe that we are coming to the time when the products of the 

 cow stable shall be fit for the dining room. 



By the Toastmaster. — We will now have a picture taken. 



By the Toastmaster. — Our Dean needs no introduction to an Illinois 

 audience. He will respond to the toast, " Room at the Top." 



ROOM AT THE TOP. 



By Dean Davenport, Urbana. 



Ladies and Gentlemen. — Really there is nothing remarkable 

 about this matter after all. I noticed the people as they came in. 



