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individual, whether in town, city or country, because it is adding to the products 

 of this State. Now, I have long felt that the State of Illinois was very negligent 

 in this respect, and I hope that this committee shall be at once prepared to do 

 something towards forwarding this matter when our legislature shall meet 

 again. I am glad that the Illinois dairymen have started this ball rolling, and I 

 hope that they will keep it rolling. It is one of the most important matters 

 that has come before this convention, and I also hope that these members will 

 bear this thing in mind, and agitate it until it shall ring in the ears of every 

 candidate for election to our next legislature, until he knows that only in for- 

 warding this matter will he satisfy, not only the farming community and their 

 interests, but the interests of the consumers of this great State of Illinois. 



Mil. Root : Is it not true that the industrial college at Champaign is 

 merely conducting it on the experimental plan, and the experiments reported 

 annually ? 



The Chairman : I cannot answer that question. I can say this, I get no 

 report from there. I get reports from Wisconsin, from New York, Michigan 

 and other States, but none from our own State. 



Prop. Henry : Prof. Morrow does some experimental work, as I under- 

 stand, but he is tied down by the greatest curse that a man can be on an experi- 

 mental farm. He is expected to make that farm pay. Why, I would be turned 

 out of our university if I tried to make our farm pay. If I was obliged to make 

 a farm pay, I would have to begin to run it as a good practical farmer, just as 

 Mr. Patrick does. Now, Mr. Patrick has no time to carry on practical 

 experiments. 



Mr. Chester : I am glad Prof. Henry has made that statement. He 

 knows that Prof. Morrow's hands, as the superintendent of that farm, are abso- 

 lutely tied to that Board of Trustees, and one of the duties of every citizen of 

 Illinois is that they shall untie them — and untie them with an appropriation for 

 an experimental farm. Then, whatever expense those experiments are to us 

 will come back to us a thousand times over in the benefit it will be to us. 



Motion carried unanimously. 



Convention adjourned to meet at 7.30 o'clock p. m. 



Convention met, pursuant to adjournment, at 7.30 p. m. 

 Music by the Apollo Club. 



Communications read by the Secretary from Gov. Oglesby, Senator Cullom 

 and Prof. Morrow. 



LETTER FROM SENATOR CULLOM. 



United States Senate, 

 Select Committee on Inter-State Commerce, 

 Washington, November 28, 1885. 

 R. P. McGlincy, Esq., 



Secretary State Dairymen's Association, Elgin, III. 

 My Dear Friend : Your favor of 21st inst., inviting me to attend the 

 annual meeting of your Association at Belvidere, on the 9th, 10th and 11th of 

 December next, has been received. My official duties here will, of course, pre- 

 vent me from accepting your invitation, as Congress will at the time have just 

 convened, and there are important interests requiring my immediate attention. 

 I would take great pleasure in attending your convention if I could do so, for I 



