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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



DAIRY FIELD WORK IN ILLINOIS. 



A. J. GLOVER, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



I am glad of the opportunity to get acquainted with the dairymen of 

 the state of Illinois. I hope to meet some of you after this meeting and 

 explain the work more in detail. While I cannot take a great deal more 

 work, there is still a chance for some of you to have your cows tested. 



Illinois is offering to her dairymen what no other state in the union 

 is extending — a chance for them to find out what each cow is doing in their 

 herds, without any expense to them. 



Illinois i^ the first state that is offering to its dairymen an opportu- 

 nity of this kind. It has been realized for a long time by close observing 

 men, that there are many cows in the state that do not pay for the feed they 

 consume. 



The object of the work is to improve the dairy conditions, by getting 

 dairymen to see better methods of breeding, feeding and caring for their 

 cows; by getting them to take better care of their milk; but getting 

 them to build better lighted and beter ventilated barns; by betting them 

 to select better sires for their herds, and by getting them to select better 

 cows, and to sell their poor ones. 



The work is not alone confined to the farmers, but whenever time al- 

 lows, I visit creameries and milkmen. If there is anything I can do to 

 help them, 1 gladly do so. The aim of the work is to make dairying more 

 profitable, to have the farmers keep better cows, get cleaner and better 

 nilk on the market, and to improve the conditions of the creameries, or, 

 in a word, to raise the dairy standard in this great state of Illinois. 



The method of doing this work does not involve any direct expense 

 on the parties having the work done. Whenever we find a dairyman in- 

 terested enough, in the improving of his cews, to weigh and sample the 



