ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 255 



TABLE OF CONTENTS, 



Page. 



Letter of Transmittal 3 



List of Officers, 1897 5 



List of Members Having Paid Dues for 1897 7 



By-Laws of the Association 11 



The Dairy Industry of Illinois— J. H. Monrad 15 



Prayer— Rev. A. W. Fuller. 22 



Greeting of the President— Geo. H. Gurler 23 



Address of Welcome— Rev. Horn 28 



Response— Lovejoy Johnson 33 



What Cows Shall Be Milk ?— Prof . T. L. Haecker 35 



Care of Our Gold Mine— the Corn.— H. B. Gurler 58 



Dairy Education in Illinois— Prof . Eugene Davenport 70 



The Parmer's Wife as a Partner— Mrs. Vena M. Beede 81 



Why Do Not Panners Take Their Wives and Daughters to the 



Dairy Convention V— Mrs. E. Noble 88 



Economical Feeding and Relative Value of Feed Stuff's- Prof. T. 



L. Haecker 92 



The Fertility of the Dairy Farm— Hon. Joseph E. Miller 104 



Milk Cooling and Aerating— W. R. Hostetter 110 



The Value of Aeration and Cooling of Milk— A. G. Judd 112 



Care and Cleaning of Milk Cans— W. R. Hostetter 115 



Feeding Calves for Milk or Beef— Prof. T. L. Haecker 117 



Shall We Raise Our Heifer Calves from Our Best Cows or Buy 



from Iowa?— A. G. Judd 124 



Creamery Management— Lovejoy Johnson 132 



Receiving Milk at the Weigh Can— R. G. Welford 143 



Some Little Things in Milk Testing— Prof. E. H. Farrington 145 



Creamery Buttermaking— E. A. Hoffman 166 



Cream Ripening— Prof . E. H. Farrington 168 



Managing Boilers and Engines— Fred Duensing 177 



The Value of Artificial Refrigeration— H. H. Hopkins 180 



Needed Dairy Legislation in Illinois— D. W. Willson 188 



The Country Woman and Her City Cousins ; How Can They be 



Mutually Helpful ?— Mrs. R. Howard Kelly 196 



How to Make This Association a Power in the State— W.H.Thurston 202 

 The Value of Good Roads to the Dairyman— Hon. B. F. Wyman. . . 205 

 Why Should Dairymen Insist on Better Roads?— A. B. Hostetter. . 207 



