230 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Directors' Meeting 



Reports of Secretary and Treasurer. Auxiliary 

 Meetings. 



GEO. CAVEN, Secretary 



Directors of the Association held two important meetings 

 last year, one being at the State Fair the first week in October 

 and the other at Edwardsville Feb. 24th, during the annual 

 round up of the State Farmers' Institute. 



The Association had been active for several years in trying 

 to bring the State Board of Agriculture to see the need of a 

 change in the management of the dairy building at the State 

 Fair. It had not been a representative building and the plan 

 proposed by the officers of the Association to the State Board 

 was to place the dairy building in charge of A. O. Auten, a 

 dairyman, who had made the department of cattle at the State 

 Fair second to none in this country. That change was made by 

 the State Board of Agriculture prior to the 1909 fair and Mr. 

 Auten appointed, at the recommendation of the officers of the 

 State Dairymen's Association; Mr. Chas. Gilkerson, a dairyman 

 at Marengo, his assistant in charge of the building. 



Mr. Gilkerson had gone to work with the idea of making 

 the dairy building at the fair truly representative of the dairy 

 industry of the state, and all who visited the Illinois State Fair 

 of 1909 will admit that a wonderful change was effected. Mr. 

 Auten entered into the work advising and giving his influence 

 to get things accomplished. Needed changes were made in the 

 building, the most important of which was the installation of an 

 adequate refrigerator. 



State Fair week in the dairy building was not an exhibition 

 alone, but dairy lectures and practical demonstrations for in- 



