ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 91 



REPORT OF SECRETARY. 



The Secretary can only report that within a short time after the meeting 

 held at Champaign in 1884, the proceedings were issued in pamphlet form and 

 distributed to the members. Copies were also sent to the members of the State 

 legislature, and to all others who made application for them. The report has 

 been called for quite extensively outside of the State, and, in some cases, the 

 Secretary did not feel warranted in sending it, because they failed to send the 

 amount necessary to cover postage, and as our funds were limited, and our 

 appropriation so tied up, many of these reports, called for from New York and 

 the Eastern States, were not sent. Occasionally, however, when the secretaries 

 or officers of agricultural societies made application we sent them, and we ex- 

 changed these reports with the officers of like associations in the West and in 

 the East. 



Since the meeting at Champaign, the Association has had but one occasion 

 to take any action in any matter of special importance, and that was during the 

 spring when the question was being agitated in the legislature of Illinois of 

 prohibiting the sale and manufacture of butterine. The officers of the Associa- 

 tioD, by their efforts, aided the dairy farmers and the manufacturers of cream- 

 ery butter to secure the adoption of such a law, and to that end the Association 

 authorized the issuing and mailing of circular letters to all the creamery men 

 and the dairy farmers that could be reached, urging them to write to their 

 representatives and State senators to labor for the adoption of a law of that 

 nature. Further than that the Association has had no business or work 

 through the interim, but has continued to watch over the matters of the dairy 

 in the State to the best of its ability, and will continue to do so during the com- 

 ing year. 



REPORT OF PRESIDENT. 



The President has only to report in regard to receiving and turning over 

 the appropriation from the State. I received from the State Auditor a check on 

 the State Treasurer for $500.00. It cost me 75 cents to get it cashed, and the 

 balance was turned over to our Treasurer. I would confirm the point that our 

 Treasurer mentioned, as to the way we are tied up in spending that appropria- 

 tion. We can simply use it in compiling and distributing the reports of our 

 convention. 



STOCK AND GRAIN-GROWING WITH DAIRYING. 



BY G. E. MORROW, PROFESSOR OP AGRICULTURE, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. 



There is confessed wide-spread depression in the dairy interest of the 

 country. This depression is not greater than that under which many classes of 

 business and almost every branch of agriculture is resting ; but is especially 

 noticeable from its contrast with the exceptional prosperity of this great interest 

 during most of the last twenty years. 



I do not look to the future with discouragement. There seems to be no 

 doubt of some lightening of the general business dullness in the near future, 

 and this will be felt by dairymen. There has been a decided check in extension 

 of dairying, and the increase in population will give an increase of demand. 



