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creased, and it takes approximately 40,000 8-gallon cans of 

 milk and cream for its daily supply. 



I was also president for several years of the Chicago 

 Milk shipping union, prior to the Tri-State Milk Producers 

 Association, which was organized fifteen years ago in the 

 Sherman House. I was elected its first President, and at 

 their high point had 16,000 members from southern Wis- 

 consin, northern Illinois, and Indiana, and this concern did 

 good service in maintaining a uniform price, and the offi- 

 cers and directors should be commended for the loyal ser- 

 vices they are rendering now. 



I also helped organize the Kane County Farm Bureau 

 and was its first president — the third county to organize in 

 the State. 



I was president of the Board of Education in the Non- 

 High School Districts of Kane County for four years. Have 

 been director of the State Farmers' Institute, representing 

 the Eleventh Congressional District for twenty-two years, 

 and served two terms as President and five terms as Treas- 

 urer. 



Have also served seventeen years on Advisory Com- 

 mittee of Fivq on Soil Experiments and Improvements, at 

 the Illinois University under Dr. C. G. Hopkins, having some 

 thirty experimental fields in different counties in the State, 

 which we visited now and then. This was very interesting 

 and there is no man who has rendered the State a greater 

 service than this man Hopkins, and his work will be appre- 

 liated more and more as the years roll by. 



I served for fifteen years on the Advisory Committee 

 on Dairy at the University, and it was at my suggestion that 

 they show us how much milk and money was produced per 

 acre, which led up to the twenty-acre demonstration. Also 

 acted on the Advisory Committee to the first Directors of 

 Agriculture of Illinois. Served for years on eight different 

 Boards of Directors in different lines of activities; was at 

 the Third Annual Meeting of the Illinois Dairymen's Asso- 

 ciation held in Elgin — Dr. Joseph Tefft was President. My 

 topic on this program was, "Which is the most profitable to 

 manufacture, butter or cheese, or both?" — this was forty- 



