ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 15 



Our Agricultural School. 



We all love and admire out State University. Naturally, 

 the Agricultural College part of it is what we are most interested 

 in and appreciate. I know that it merits this appreciation. In 

 what other agricultrual college will you find men with the ability 

 of a Davenport, a Hopkins, a Mumford, a Forbes? Such insti- 

 tutions are judged by their " works," and our estimation of them 

 is reached by seeing, by reading their bulletins and by personal 

 knowledge. Our especial interest there, of course, is the Dairy 

 Department, the mother section of agriculture. As your Presi- 

 dent, I carried out your instructions in regard to leaving off the 

 Dairy Committee from the Dairy clause in the Experiment station 

 appropriation bill and the usual bill was passed in that manner, 

 giving the Dairy Department $15,000 each year to be used as 

 the college sak fit. They have had this amount now, annu- 

 ally, for three years, and $10,000.00 of it was asked for to be 

 secured from the legislature for field work, such as was started 

 by Mr. A. J. Glover. That is carrying dairy knowledge to the 

 farmer and manufacturers of dairy product of today. The col- 

 lege itself can do largely the work for tomorrow, the future, in 

 educating the young men from each section, but, how to reach 

 and improve the farmer of today was the question, and this field 

 work was the one settled on. They found money enough to 

 have Mr. Glover in the field on the old appropriation and the 

 extra $10,000 was to engage others for the several sections 

 of the State. It was not until this fall that sufficient men were 

 found to cover the territory and that only very thinly. One 

 man in Chicago Milk Supply, one in Northern Illinois, one in 

 Central Illinois, one in the Southern part, with two extra men at 

 the college. We feel sure if this force is kept in the field and 

 does its duty, the taxpayer will never regret the outlay. The 

 results of the pioneer work done by Mr. Glover a few years ago 

 in connection with that done at the college, is coming to be seen 

 and appreciated, and it gives us courage to advise enlarging- this 

 line of work as much as possible. As the several departments 



