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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



press forward, for if we do not we go backward. The great agricultural 

 interests of Illinois are watching you. New buildings, better equip- 

 ments, improved facilities bring new responsibilities. While we have 

 been satisfied in the past with moderate results, or none at all, we now 

 €xpect great things of you. You must measure up to a new standard 

 and we have faith that you will not be found wanting. If satisfactory 

 results come from money wisely expended there is no doubt but what Illi- 

 nois will take care of her own. Let it be remembered that there is much 

 truth in the saying from the book of books, "To those that have shall be 

 given and from those who have not shall be taken away." If you succeed 

 much will be added, if you fail, much that you have will be taken away. 



Agricultural development in the past twenty-five years has come 

 largely through wise legislation. The establishment by the general gov- 

 ernment of State Universities and State Experiment Stations through- 

 out the length and breadth of the land and the equipment, by the State, 

 of buildings, apparatus, and means of instruction has done more in the 

 past twenty-five years to bring the science of agriculture to its proper 

 position than is generally known. Ernest men and women. Stock Breed- 

 ers' Associations, Dairymen's Associations, Board of Agriculture, Horti- 

 culture Societies, Farmers' Institutes, Poultry Breeders' Associations, 

 and kindred organizations are in great measure due to appropriations 

 made by the legislature of this a nd other States. All of these organi- 

 zations, made strong by state aid, have contributed much in securing 

 proper recognition for agriculture at the hands of the general assembly 

 of this State in the erection and e quipment of this grand edifice. 



To those in charge of this great work of agriculture education I wish 

 to extend hearty congratulations, your success in the future will depend 

 upon whether you keep close to the people interested— to what they need 

 and require— to those things the knowledge of which will make them bet- 

 ter farmers and better citizens— to those things that are practical as well 

 as educational. If you will but carry out in good faith the motto of this 

 great University and link "Learning and Labor" in very truth you will 

 meet our expectations. Dignify labor with learning and make it intelli- 



