134 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Wednesday Evening, January, 17, 1906 



President in the chair. 



The first on the program this evening is music by the 

 orchestra. Encored. 



By the President. — The Dairy Association, in bringing gen- 

 tlemen to talk to their organization, aim to bring men at the head 

 of their class, and we have gone over to Michigan, and will hear 

 from Mr. Lillie, who is President of the Michigan Dairymen's 

 Association. 



SELECTING AND BREEDING DAIRY CATTLE. 



By Mr. Colen C. Little. 



Mr. President, Members of the Illinois State Daiiwmen's Associa- 

 tion, Ladies and Gentlemen : 



I wish to take this opportunity to thank the management of 

 the Illinois State Dairymen's Association for inviting me down 

 here this evening. I came down to you more from a selfish stand- 

 point than any other. We have, in Michigan, inaugurated a 

 dairy compaign with this motive — more and better milk, butter 

 and cheese for Michigan. It was with the idea of getting some- 

 thing down here which would assist me in getting more out of 

 this campaign that I come here tonight. I am very glad indeed 

 to meet some of the dairymen and men connected with the dairy 

 industry of Illinois. By coming in touch with them and with 

 men of like caliber, it is the only chance I see of getting new ideas. 

 Under our new dairy law in Michigan, it is the duty of the 

 Dairy and Food Commissioner to foster the industry of the state, 

 and under this law we have begun this campaign that I have men- 

 tioned here. I am frank to say, if I had the arrangement of this 

 program, I would have selected a different time for this particular 

 subject, or a different subject for the evening, but I was brought 



