40 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Tuesday Evening, January 9, 1900 



Music, "Three Fishers," by Hon. Jules Lumbardl Responded to an 

 .encore, "Maggie," by request. 



Dairy Husbandry at University of Illinois 



PROF. E. DAVENPORT, URBANA, ILL. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: I assure you it is a pleasure 

 to be before you tonight. I take it for granted that we are all interested 

 In knowing what the University of Illinois is doing in dairy husbandry 

 Tather than listening to a speech. Then in the quickest way I am going 

 to talk about it. 



Last winter was a memorable one in the history of agriculture in 

 Illinois. For the first time an appropriation was made for a building to 

 accommodate this' college. One hundred and fifty thousand' dollars is a 

 :g'Ood generous sum of money to build that University a building, at least 

 to accommodate technical agriculture. 



Not only that, another thing that is of more significance in its way 

 was this: In 1862(the Governmient, as you know or ought to know, appro- 

 priated 30,0'0'0 acres of wild land' to each State for every Congressman it 

 then had in Congress^480,000' ac res of wild land in Illinois. This land 

 was sold as the market came for i t. The fund was to go for the founding 

 of a college where those things that pertain to agriculture should be 

 taught. 



In 1890, what we call the second Morrill Bill should be paid to each 

 State. That year $15,CW for the same purpose. The next year this should 



