94 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



In conclusion, if it be said I am too conservative or old f ogyish, I cannot 

 help it. I look throupfh the medium of my own experience and observation. 

 The operations of nature are often carried on with great sacrifice of material, 

 one seed in a thousand perhaps developing to the reproductive stage. I offer 

 this discussion as a seed thought to take its chances among the forces strug- 

 gling for the world's government. 



Mr. Bubll : I desire to express the delight which I experienced in my 

 visit to the University yesterday. It was my delight to see illustrated what 

 I believe are the very truths which I have tried to enunciate in the paper 

 which I have read. I believe that every college in the University is valuable 

 in this way. I have nothing to say about a college which is organized on 

 the plan of Harvard or Yale, or Amherst, and the numerous other schools 

 which I might mention whose recitation rooms are filled with boys whose 

 parents believe they are important for their future success in life. Why, in 

 this group of colleges should you omit that one; why, it seems to me you are 

 destroying the proportions in doing so. Many a boy will come through the 

 school here ; his tastes lead him through a very different course from what 

 his father pursued; if his father happens to be a doctor or a farmer, it is no 

 sign that he will be the same. Give the boys an education, let them know 

 the elementary principles upon which they can base a career for any one of 

 these courses of life, and they will find it. Only make strong men of them 

 intellectually, morally and physically, and they will find their place. 



Mr. Hall: I indorse all Mr. Buell has said since he folded up his 

 paper, but I do not agree with him when he says it is folly coaxing a horse to 

 drink that is not dry. My friend will know that I could not hold my position 

 as a teacher one year if I did not have the boys who leave me inspired with a 

 desire to get higher, that they would not have had, if they did not come to 

 school, because coaxing is what teachers are paid for. It is making the horse 

 dry that is our work. As to the moral question, my friend must not think 

 that all the teachers of public schools in this state have not considered that 

 question over and over again. If it was an easy one to solve we would have 

 solved it long ago. 



Mr. Buell : With reference to the horse drinking, remember I said 

 the work of education is to set ablaze the elements which, are in the soul of 

 the pupil. If the horse had a taste for the water, you would not need to 

 bring him up to it; you cannot create these elements of taste. 



Prof. Morrow : Give them salt. 



Mr. Broomell : I think that Prof. Hall has been doing just that thing, 

 giving his boys salt. 



BREEDING AND FEEDING, FOR THE DAIRY. 



C. H. LARKIN, ELGIN. 



In' discussing a subject so fundamental in its character, one will en- 

 counter many vexed questions chiefly because of the ignorance of substan- 

 tial, practical facts based upon carefully and intelligently conducted experi- 

 ments; vexed by the conflicting interests of rival breeders; vexed by the hope 

 that there may yet be found that, to me, unknown breed, that excel in every- 



