ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



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Say! There are three good things about the dairy. It pro,duc©s^sa 

 regular farm fertilizer, regular work, and regular income.. 

 Music by the Apollo Mandolin Club. 

 Responded to an encore. / 



Woman as a Factor in the l>airy^ 



MRS. EVA SPRINGFR, SPRINGFIELD. 



Your committee has honored me with an invitation to address tM^ 

 meeting, and has suggested as a topic what the Buttermakers' Associa- 

 tion of Sangamon County hope to accomplish. Inasmuch as this Asso- 

 ciation has made no little history of interest to dairymen, and, I might, 

 say dairy women, of this and other States, an account of its organizationi 

 may serve a good purpose. In a paper read before the Sangamon; 

 County Farmers' Institute, the startling statement vas made that the? 

 merchants of Springfield purchased annually more than one hundreil 

 thousand dollars' worth of butter made outside of Sangamon countF- 

 The great importance of creating an interest among the farmers of the? 

 county in butter making was quite generally discussed at tlie institntej„ 

 and at the suggestion of Col. Charles F. Mills, then secretarFof the IK— 

 inois Farmers* Institute; the writer of this paper on June 21, 189i^ pre- 

 sented the matter of calling a convention of the buttermakers of tha^ 

 county for the consideration of the dairy interestsi to the eonntj iii— 

 stitute. The gentleman named above secured the appointment by the^ 

 county inctitute of a committee of five ladies, who were pledged tlifE* 

 support of the county institute in the holding of a butter show im 

 Springfield. The committee consisted of Mrs. Eva Springer, Mrs, W. B:. 

 Lloyd, Mrs. B. S. Magill, Miss Mary Tabler, and Mrs. Edward Sterliiig-^ 

 The committee had several meetings in the office of Col. Mills^ witlu 

 others interested, and decided to call a mass meeting of buttermafe^-^ 



