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States and that should be compatible AAath our unprecedented 

 agricultural interests. I should have been guilt}^ of the gross- 

 est professional negligence, and of treason to the State, had 

 I not in season and out of season, at home and abroad, with 

 organization and with individual, labored industriously to 

 show the necessity for a building and equipment suited to the 

 needs of agriculture, for a plant with which to work. Stand- 

 ing before you, I am here to say that while I am in Illinois, 

 1 shall continue to labor till we get it. 



It is reasonable and necessary, and good work cannot be 

 done without it. It is the cheapest way to train the rising 

 generation, for every well-trained man is a nucleus for the 

 dissemination of better knowledge among the people. Other 

 states have moved ahead of us, and are drawing upon our 

 students. The Trustees have done much, how much there is 

 not time to say, but the end is practically reached until the 

 people will establish a plant in whi^h technical instruction 

 of our kind can be imparted. 



Specifically what ought to be done at the university con- 

 cerning dairy interests? I hope to hear discussion on this 

 matter, but am free to say that four great lines of work stand 

 clearly before me as seeming to demand attention. They are. 

 First, to do our share of the vast amount of experimental 

 inquiry yet remaining before we shall learn the most economi- 

 cal method of producing milk, and the most successful pro- 

 cesses of manufacture of dairy products of high grade. 

 Second, to teach to every student entering the College of 

 Agriculture, and as many others as will come, the essentials 

 regarding milk production and its proper care bacteriolo- 

 gically and otherwise to insure a perfect article for manufac- 

 turing purposes. Added to this I would that every student 

 should know how to use the tester and the separator and 

 understand the general principles of creaming and butter- 

 making, with opportunity for further instruction by election, 

 and I would place in his hands the best known modern appa- 

 ratus. Third, I would have a plant in which those contem- 

 plating the business of manufacturing can learn by thorough 

 and experimental methods the best processes of manufacture 

 of both butter and cheese to the end that standards and 

 XJroducts may be improved; that is to say, I would have a dairy 



