ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 105 



The facts that I have gone over concerning" the feeding of farm animals 

 are useful not only for the stable and feed-lot, but they apply indirectly 

 in m^any ways to human nutrition, and so our boys and girls, while studying 

 these topics in the country schools, would gain a great deal of helpful in- 

 formation. Can not and' should not our teachers prepare themselves in 

 the near future to give instruction in some lines of agriculture at least as 

 well as in the branches now in the course of study? 



See how one subject can be brought into school teaching. We need 

 training. Go even to a circus and watch them ride horseback, but it 

 takes training, as you would probably find out if you tried it. There is no 

 line of business that needs such successful prosecution as agricultural 

 pursuits, and we are trying to make them easier. 



It is only coming to take up ceitain studies like these extra studies of 

 agriculture, and' solving the harder problems, this coming to college. When 

 you want more education for your girls you send them to the normal 

 school and' where they have teachers trained from the ground up and 

 down again. Having gone to this college even they can go out and use 

 illustrations and arithmetic problems and all relating to the subjects 

 they have studied. Why not lessons for the farm? Will it pay? 



There is a little country over on the other side of the water, a quarter 

 as big as this State ; it is not all go od farming land. They call it Denmark. 

 Their population is about the same as Wisconsin. You would think they 

 would eat up everything they rais ed. This little country of Denmark be- 

 gan many years ago to train her people along agricultural lines, and the 

 Government took it up. They have their schools, their veterinary col- 

 leges, and> professors' of agriculture, and they are all respected and looked 

 up to. It has trained its' people ir. all these branches, and from a nation 

 that was low diown among agriculturists, whose butter had; no^ marked 

 distinction, they have become the greatest dairying people on earth, 

 that little country a quarter as big as Wisconsin sends twenty and thirty 

 millions of dollars' worth of butter to other countries. Denmark ex- 

 ports to other countries twenty- four dollars' worth of agricultural pro- 

 ducts for every man, woman, and child in the country, whether living 

 in the city or the country. 



