250 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



agricultural press helps us to get two or tliree thousand merri- 

 bers during this year; the printing and sending out of the 

 reports takes a great deal of money. The Secretary ought to 

 be able to travel around and hold some meetings. We have 

 got to put |1,000 into these books and they are good books, 

 but we must reach the farmers; the ones who need preaching 

 to. This Association ought to spread its work more. It 

 should send out instructors and possibly engage the full time 

 of the right kind of a Secretary and have him go out into the 

 school houses and other places. 



The Chairman: I think our best plan is to have one good 

 meeting and try and have money enough to make it the best 

 thing in the State and put it into a book that will be of value 

 to the farmer to take home and study. One man told me last 

 year that if he could have had that book a month after that 

 meeting was held, it would have been worth |50 to him just 

 for raising his season's calves. 



Mr. Reed: It might be better to have this organization 

 a State institution and let the State print the books, as it 

 does the horticultural reports. 



Mr. Monrad: In that case we would never get them out. 



Mr. Perriam: This organization ought to be supported 

 because it represents an industry that is a great industry and 

 a most important one, quite as much so as the horticultural or 

 any other society. 



Mr. Schammell: We must remember that the horticultur- 

 ists get their strength from the fact that they are spread all 

 over the State, and the dairy interest would be stronger if we 

 could introduce it into districts where it does not exist. I live 

 in the grain section of the State ; a few men have come in there 

 with their small separators, and their example is being fol- 

 lowed, and I believe that if we could only introduce dairying 

 more generally it would be taken up all over the State. In 

 the Farmers' Institutes that are held in that part of the State 

 we usually have one paper during the session on dairying, but 

 it is generally not discussed very much. If this Association 

 would send around to the institutes a few first-class dairy 

 speakers who could talk this matter up, I believe it would 

 take immensely. A special friend of mine has bought a Baby 



