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in other ways, such as by a traveling dairy school, dairy lectur- 

 ers at Farmers' Institutes and financial assistance to those 

 who organize the Test Associations referred to above. We 

 have large institutions in our State, built and maintained by 

 private philanthropy, turning out doctors, lawyers, ministers, 

 etc., by the thousands into these overcrowded fields, while 

 none of these private benefactors seem to have thought of 

 helping the farmers. 



What we need is less education from the farm, and more to 

 the farm. Who will be the first philanthropists to turn a 

 part of their donations in this direction? 



STATE DAIRY COMMISSIONER. 



Thanks to the energy of Mr. Knight, Secretary of the 

 National Dairy Union, and other champions of the dairy inter- 

 est, we now have an anti- color law, but no machinery to en- 

 force it. 



We need a Dairy Commissioner, with at least two assist- 

 ants and sufficient funds. These men should not be appointed 

 by politicians, but they should be experts in dairying, so that 

 they may employ their time not only in preventing the fraud- 

 ulent sale of oleomargarine and filled cheese, but also in pro- 

 moting better dairying. 



They should pour oil in the educational lamp which we 

 all hope to see lit for the dairymen of Illinois. 



But — if we are to hope for help, be it from the State or 

 from private philanthropy, we must be willing to help our- 

 selves, and I appeal to all those who read this volume to be- 

 come members (if not already so), and send in their member- 

 ship fee of fl.OO. 



J. H. MONRAD, 



Secretary. 



