ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



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"The landscape of England, with its beautiful and neatly kept hedge 

 rows, slightly undulating fields dotted over with trees, and almost inva- 

 riably filled with good stock, makes the most beautiful country the agri- 

 €ultruist could imagine. 



"The typical farm cottage is very substantially built, yet great at- 

 tention is paid to the artistic. The cottage is usually covered with beau- 

 tiful vines. 



"We met Mr. Smith, a most delightful old Scotch farmer, who lived in 

 one of these typical farm houses. 



"The kind of cart the English farmer uses has usually a double seat 

 to carry four people. 



"The English roads are finely macadamized and with beautiful trees 

 and hedge rows on either side. 



"You see cows and calves in nearly every pasture. 



'We visited the show of the Bith and West of England Society, which 

 show was held at Bath, and is second in England only to the Royal, and 

 as it is in the dairy section of England, had a better dairy exhibit than 

 the Royal. We viewed from the amphitheatre the parade of stock in the 

 show ring of Guernseys and Jerseys. The dairy breeds were well repre- 

 sented by the Guernseys and Jerssys. 



"We saw there a milking contest in progress at the Bath show. 

 "These are quite prominent features, participated in only by dairy maids. 

 Each maid milks three cows and the premiums are awarded on rapidity, 

 manner, and cleanness of milking. We might well take a lesson of our 

 English brothers in this, as the milking is an all-important part of dairy- 

 ing. As is usual, there were exhibits of the different firms handling 

 •daii-y utensils and supplies. 



"We also visited the dairy hall, where the dairy contests took place 

 in the different dairy operations and where instruction was given in dairy 

 methods at different times of the day. In one of these contests thirty- 

 seven dairy maids competed in butter making. As much of the butter 

 of England is made in private dairies this work is very popular. 



"The Butter exhibit was one of the most beautiful displays of but- 

 ter I ever saw. The tables had been covered with soil and sown thickly 



