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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



have to wait a year or so. Is there any reason why a man must know 

 Latin before Mr. Kennedy can teach him stock judging? Each one of 

 these foTty or fifty studies stands on its own base. The student must 

 meet our requirements'. If he wishes to study bacteriology, he must first 

 take a year of botany if he needs it and then take up bacteriology. 



We do have a class of dairy stock management which treats of the 

 ordinary care and feeding and management of farm work that any one 

 can take. He talks about balancing up the ration and the protein and 

 all that sort of thing. 



Mr. Kennedy blazes away and teaches a lot of stock grading, and will 

 teach them to get a good steer for their herd. If boys are going to study 

 the most intricate question of feed; if they are going to study evolution, 

 they have got to study two years of university work first before they can 

 take up such things. We are making it possible for a student to study 

 things he is able to study. We don't call it a short course. We have 

 one man take a course and when he has taken 130 credits, and he ought to 

 get 15 every half year, if he has taken sufficient number in agriculture and 

 science and balance up his studies, we graduate him. We give him a de- 

 gree of Bachelor of Science. 



So far we have 75 new students. We have special students who are 

 dloing remarkably good work. Mr. Erf is here, Mr. Kennedy is here, Mr. 

 Eraser is her.e. They all teach. Talk to them and ask them any question 

 you want to. 



One thing more. We are able to do this: much because we got more 

 money than ever before. We have been able to get these buildings on this 

 cut. We have gotten these twelve men and have subdivided our studies, 

 and can do so much better. It is only when you get right after a s^ject 

 that you get the inside of it, and it is only then that you make a subject 

 powerful. 



If a student studies one subject four months we give him an invita- 

 tion to go home for a while. 



Did you ever hear the story of the southern preacher. He said I had 

 a dream last night, and I am going to preach. I saw G. P. C. on the wall 



