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of the dairy husbandry should be principally and solely for the good it 

 might do to the individual student who might come here. I believe it is 

 established here in order that dairy husbandry, beef cattle business, man- 

 agement of soil and all of these agricultural professions, can be carried 

 on better in the State of Illinois. The State gets a benefit out of the in- 

 dividual, and so I think it is only fair to put it this way. Mr. Fraser, 

 Mr. Erf and Mr. Glover, the three men especially connected with this 

 department, their first object is always, and always has been, to ask 

 and answer the question, " What is the bearing on the dairy business." 

 If they teach either successfully, and carry on experiments successfully, 

 why it is bettering the dairy business. 



This gives me the opportunity to say, that with that point of de- 

 partment settled, we outline our work. For teaching purposes here, 

 we recognize first two distinct different classes of people. There is 

 first of all — not because most important but because mentioned first — 

 the dairy farming. We make a distinct separation for teaching purposes, 

 in outlining our course of study, the business of producing milk and the 

 business of manufacturing products. 



Prof. Fraser, who teaches these subjects relating to milk producing, 

 he offers a course of dairy cattle, the animals that are suitable for milk 

 production. He offers dairy farm management. He is not asked what 

 the rest of us teach. He discusses the question of stocking and man- 

 aging a dairy farm; whether the cows shall be bought or bred, and if 

 bred, how bred; how feed silage to the dairy herd. Perhaps in 

 the same hour, in another floor, Mr. Mumford is telling the beef peo- 

 ple about a silo. He has a course in milk which lasts a full half year, 

 in which he discusses the nature of milk and the economical production 

 of milk and the care of it, the testing of milk in order to test the cows, 

 and this milk question is based on the dairy farm side of things, because 

 the dairy farm was handled there and deliver it to the man that manu- 

 factured something out of it. If it is not properly handled and deliver- 

 ed to the consumer, that has been a failure. They study dairy bacteria 

 for the sake of the milk production on the manufacturers side for the 

 sale of men who shall take the milk and make something out of it. 

 These courses are outlined and taught by another man, Mr. Erf, who 



