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Mr. Monrad: Do you mean to sa}- that your cheese maker 

 averages three pounds of cheese for every pound of butter 

 that he could have made? 



Mr. Soverhill: Very nearly, I guess, taking the season 

 through. I have not had much experience in the butter busi- 

 ness. 



Mr. Monrad: That is too much. 



The Chairman: Mr. Soverhill is one of those gentlemen 

 who does not believe in changing around every time the 

 market changes. He started with cows when he was a young 

 man and he has got cows yet, and he has two or three farms 

 to show for it. 



The Chairman read a letter containing an invitation from 

 Galesburg, to hold the next meeting in that city, which was 

 referred to the Directors. 



On motion of Mr. Hostetter, the paper of Mr. Thurston, 

 read at the evening session of the day before, was taken up 

 for discussion. 



Mr. Monrad: As I understand Mr. Thurston's suggestion, 

 there shall be no membership fee, except a voluntary one. He 

 suggests that the agricultural press would help us to solicit 

 membership, and that by having them as members without 

 paying that there would be a large percentage that would 

 become interested in the work of the Association and become 

 paying members. 



Mr. Schammell: He also suggests that he has had ex- 

 perience in several associations and that the plan has paid 

 admirably, having what he calls a sustaining membership, 

 which pays the dollar. These were religious and political 

 organizations. 



Mr. Hostetter: Something ought to be done to get more 

 members for the Hlinois State Dairymen's Association. I 

 am in favor of any plan that will get the dairymen to work 

 together. Your Secretary has 200 members, the largest mem- 

 bership it has had for a great many years. We ought in some 

 way to raise money so we could pay our Secretary at least 

 a fair salary. 



Mr. Monrad: I told my friend Thurston, that I liked his 

 plan first-rate, if he would only solve the problem of getting 

 over the bridge in the first place. Let us suppose that the 



