ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. ^^ 



About the teaching, which after all is the principal question. There 

 are no use for buildings unless to use them. I want to say that the in- 

 crease in the fund brought to us the possibility of doing what ;r have al- 

 ways hoped to do, and what did not seem possible until the last moment, 

 and that is the reorganization of cur course of instruction upon a new 

 and a more reasonable basis. 



The trouble with agriculture in schools is that we have had too few 

 teach ersi. A professor of agriculture is supposed to know something of 

 every other branch connected with an agricultural school, or that is the 

 way it seems to be understood by the majority. That usually means, a 

 professor who knows everything, and says he does, doesn't know any- 

 thing real well of any one subject. He hits at random on a few subjects 

 and does no good. I say this without hesitation, as I occupy the place 

 myself. I did not come as a Professor of Agriculture; that is too big fo-r 

 me. 



Some of us believe that you wiil never get ahead in agriculture until 

 we subdivide the subjects, and take this- man's statements for this thing, 

 and that man's statements for that thing, and so on. Why, some of the 

 professors were expected to know all about making butter and cheese,, 

 and the diseases of the hog, and I d on't know what he didn't have to- 

 know, and how to breed and feed and everything else, and as long as we 

 stood there, we did not get ahead. 



So we have divided agricultural work into these subjects, that we 

 know of today are things that ought to be taught. I have some cards- 

 that outline these subjects: 



Fertility and Rotations Cheddar Cheese 



Comparative Agriculture Milk Production 



Crops of the Farm Fancy Cheese 



History of Agriculture Cream Separation 



Soil Bacteriology Dairy Bacteriology 



Farm Management City Milk Supply • 



Farm Machinery Butter Making 



Meteorology Vegetable Gardening 



