ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. ^i 



be $16,000, and then $17,000, and $1,000 more each year until $25,000 a year 

 was reached, and this year it is $25,000. 



The University of Illinois is the beneficiary of two government en- 

 dowments, for mechanical and agriculture purposes. From now on one- 

 half the money that the University of Illinois receives from the land rent 

 of 1862, not less than one-half, and not less than one-half received from 

 the Morrill Bills, shall be s«t aside for instruction in Agriculture and 

 Mechanics. 



I will not take the time to show you that in few instances the money 

 that came to these States from these funds served agriculture to any 

 great extent. In very few States one-half of this money goes to such a 

 purpose. IIlinoi& can say that it was the first State to put upon the 

 statute books a decree that one-half of this money should be used for this 

 purpose and nothing else. A sura of $26,000 a year and one-half of each 

 to be used to the betterment of this branch of dairy husbandry. 



It is hardly necessary to tell you that this fund is. about five times 

 more than we have enjoyed before, and- about one-fifth of what we ought 

 to have. 



First of all about the buildin gs being built. Here is a plan of it, a 

 ground plan, that I hope you can all see: 



This main portion of the building fronts the west down in the ave- 

 nue. This portion of it through here, 284 feet, is the longest side of the 

 building on the campus. These portions are 65 feet wide, and these sev- 

 €ral portions 100 feet deep. It is three stories high, and right in there 

 on the first floor are the administration offices; on the second floor is the 

 auditorium, seating 500 people, and right in there on the second floor is 

 where this Dairy Association is going to meet some day in the near future. 

 In the next room is the agricultural room and toilet rooms, and on this 

 si die a woman's club room, and when the livestock come and the poultry 

 breeders to hold their meetings there they will find agreeable and suit- 

 able rooms for their purposes, and we will have ante-rooms and com- 

 mittee rooms will also be handy. In speaking in general, this portion of 

 the building is devoted to offices, laboratories, for field agriculture, and 

 horticulture, dairy culture, animal husbandry, etc. 



