92 ILLINOIS STATE Di^IRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



God bless the farmers' homes and help them to see the 

 necessity of making them attractive, so the boys and girls 

 will see more of comfort and pleasure in their country homes 

 and be less willing to leave them. 



God bless the farm boys, who guide the plows and turn 

 the soil and pave the way with hard toil for the rich harvest. 



God bless the farmer girls, whose willing hearts and 

 helping hands and dainty touch do much to make home life 

 beautiful on the farm. 



Song, 'Tut Me Off at Buffalo," Mr. F. J. Effert. 



Kecitation, "If T Could Be By Her," Miss N'eltnor. 



The convention adjourned till 9 o'clock next day. 



Convention met pursuant to adjournment at 9 o'clock a. 

 m., Thursday, February 25, 1897. 



H, B. Gurler in the chair. 



The Chair appointed the following committees: 



On Membership: W. K. Hostetter, K. E. Wilcox, E. C. 

 West. 



On Nominations: Lovejoy Johnson, George Reed, O. S. 

 Lucas, 



On Resolutions: A. G. Judd, W. D. Artman, W. R. Hos- 

 tetter. 



ECONOMICAL FEEDING AND RELATIVE VALUE OF 

 FEED STUFFS. 



Prof. Haecker: Mr. President, I hardly know how best 

 to handle this subject. I will have to feel my way along, and 

 say whatever the moment brings forth. 



The feeding of a dairy cow, or, in fact, any domestic 

 animal, should be looked upon as a mathematical problem, 

 the animal as a machine, and the feed as the fuel. Now, in 

 order to do economical work we must have in the first place 

 a machine thoroughly adapted for our work, if not, it will 

 not do the most economical work possible. It is, therefore, 

 necessary to commence just where we left off yesterday, taking 

 the dairy cow as the machine with which to manufacture 

 dairy products economically, and eliminating the beef or gen- 

 eral purpose cow^ Having that style of animal to deal with, 

 the next thing in order is to provide environments. We find 



