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stands towards the state of Illinois. It is known perhaps to 

 many of you that that the state legislature, as usual, granted 

 $500 only for the purpose of publishing and showing to the 

 state at large the proceedings of this dairymen's yearly meeting. 

 Last year it was almost an impossibility to get the bill through; 

 in fact, it failed some three different times to get a vote to carry 

 it through, a large portion of the southern part of the state 

 claiming that it is merely a local institution and that they might 

 as well throw $500 into any private institution as into this. It 

 was claimed that a large portion of the state never saw any 

 books printed, and even many of the legislators said, " You want 

 $500 to print books ; we never see any." I had to give them my 

 word that we would appeal to the managers this time to get out 

 a neat book and send them a number of those books and give 

 them an idea of the extent of this interest all over the state, and 

 I understand that it is the intention to do so." 



The President: "On the part of the association we will agree 

 that Mr. Stewart shall see as finely a bound volume of reports 

 as ever was gotten up, and a copy of it shall be sent to every 

 member of the legislature, and if we can't move on them that 

 way, I don't know how we can." * 



The Secretary : " I wish to say that we have a query box. 

 In order to help us in putting before the dairy people those 

 questions in which they are interested, we would request any of 

 you who have any question you wish answered, or any plan 

 you desire to suggest in relation to the dairy or agricultural sub- 

 jects, to put the same in writing and hand them in and they will 

 be answered, either from the platform here by practical people 

 who know what* they are talking about, or through the printed 

 report of the proceedings of this association, or in the regular 

 bulletins which it is proposed to issue, by the most prominent 

 men in the country upon the various subjects that will be called 

 for. If we cannot find men among us to answer those questions 

 we shall go to work and use the information of the press and of 

 men in other sections posted on these various matters and give 

 them to you." 



