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largest exhibit of dairy implements and dairy products that ever 

 had been held west of the Alleghany mountains, which I 

 thought was pretty good for the beginning. 



That show encouraged our board to continue and they held 

 another show last year. To the observing public that show 

 was not a representative show of the dairy interest, and yet it 

 better represented the dairy interest of Illinois than the first 

 show. It was discovered in the first show that the exhibits 

 were too large, we demanded that they bring too many pack- 

 ages to represent an exhibit, and as we had unfavorable weather 

 all the week, there was a large per cent, lost to the exhibitors 

 in the value of their goods, and we decided to make the exhibit 

 a smaller one in one respect, that a single package might rep- 

 resent any factory, creamery or dairy, and then the dairymen 

 of Illinois could come there and examine the product after they 

 had been scored and compare with other products ; the student 

 of dairying could go there and study the samples, but I am 

 sorry to say that I have been very much astonished and disap- 

 pointed that the dairymen of Illinois, among whom I have a 

 very large acquaintance, and the magnitude of whose interests 

 we fully appreciate, I am sorry to say that they almost let the 

 show of 1887 fall to the ground, not because there was not money 

 enough in it, for one of your own citizens told me that he re- 

 ceived more than one hundred dollars on a prize on one single 

 twenty-five pound package. A citizen of a neighboring county 

 last year received nearly four hundred dollars upon one sixty 

 pound package at the second show. If these are not encourage- 

 ments for you to come out I don't know what we can devise, 

 for I want you to understand definitely that the Illinois State 

 Board of Agriculture are not millionaires ; their members work 

 for nothing, without any salary, and their treasury, I assure 

 you, is not in a condition to enlarge these premiums; but when 

 hundreds of dollars fall upon one single tub, any of you that 

 ever invested in a lottery might take the chance that a lot 

 would fall upon you. 



Quintet, "We Never Will Mortgage The Farm" — Mrs. N. 



