so ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOOIATION. 



school wherein specialists may learn the art of producing the 

 best quality of dairy manufactures. 



All these will require special apparatus and suitable 

 buildings. When will the State provide thena? We are ask- 

 ing for these now. How much behind our neighbors is Illi- 

 nois willing to remain and why? It shall not be said that 

 she remains behind because nobody reminded her of her neces- 

 sities. She will not remain behind. I have faith in so great 

 a State peopled from the best stock of the new world, and E 

 have courage. 



Fourth, and lastly, the organization representing dairy 

 interests at the university ought to be strong and aggressive, 

 alert to the well-being of those interests within our borders, 

 willing and able to co-operate effectively with this body here 

 in convention, always and everywhere for the good of dairy- 

 ing. This is not mere wordiness. I mean it. I have talked 

 it at home, and I talk it to you because I feel it, and because 

 I believe it is the only sound policy. 



Expensive? All good things are costly. We have al- 

 ready covered that ground. Whatever at any cost will in- 

 crease by never so small a fraction the quantity or the quality, 

 or the effectiA^eness of the productive energies of a great 

 people is cheaply won. If this be not sufficiently specific, I 

 will call attention to a single instance. I know that every 

 man here will agree with me that the Babcock test is worth 

 more to the world in dollars than all that the Wisconsin 

 Station and equipment, and all the other Stations, ever have 

 cost or ever will cost. 



All that the government puts into both agricultural edu- 

 cation and experimentation in all the States for a year is 

 less than the cost of one iron-clad. Let the energies of pro- 

 duction at least keep pace with agents of destruction. This 

 is not to draw comparison, because w^e need them both, but 

 it is to show that what we are expending for public education 

 and advancement of knowledge is not such an extravagant 

 sum after all, and that it is an investment that returns a 

 revenue. 



Violin Solo, Miss Neltnor. 



