ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S x\SSOCIATION. r x 



in your county, but we cannot put these into the schools unless you fel- 

 lows of the country want it and demand it. In some of the counties it has 

 been called for; in Wayne county, through agitating the cause in the con- 

 vention at Appleton, it has been p laced in the schools there and the results 

 are "very satisfactory. In Champaign county, out of 1,600 papers filed for 

 examination, all but less than a Jozen took lessons on agricultural science. 

 These things are what we must demand. You must help to have them 

 taught and it will tend in a large measure to increase the interest of the 

 boys and the girls in the farm work 



In Wisconsin, your neighbor state here, so much stress has been giv- 

 en to this suoject, that it is now r equired as one of the branches in teach- 

 ers' examinations. 



In New York state, the state tbat probably has been following it 

 longer than any other state, instead of requiring it says\it must be taught. 

 The State University is taking it up and through New York state bulletins 

 are furnished the country teachers ana clubs are organized to study it in 

 nearly every country distiict in the state of New York. The children are 

 interested and the result is, when they leave the country school, instead 

 of going to a medical or some other college, they go to the agricultural 

 college at Cornell. If this was carried out in Illinois, it would bring the 

 same results. 



The University of Illinois has been issuing circulars, and if the 

 farmers would call fori them, the teachers here would gladly provide 

 these bulletins to you or send them throughout Illinois. Formerly when 

 other states inquired of us concerning this subject, Illinois had to hang 

 her head, but now she has cause to hold/ her head as high as any state; 

 they are second to no one. Four years ago our Agricultural College was 

 held irt a basement of a number of Gther buildings at Champaign, with 

 cracks in the walls, but today a college building, second to none, stands 

 there with nearly two hundred students in the agricultural course. It is 

 not alone for the boys, but there is the domestic feature for the girls. 

 There is no reason why our college, instead of 200 boys and girls, should 



