ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. j 3 3 



their effect upon the production of crops, all these and many other prob- 

 lems that every day confront and concern the welfare of the farmer 

 need to be solved and the solution applied to farm operations. There- 

 fore there is a place and a demand for scientific men, and a college where 

 the farmer's boys and girls can be trained to fill these places. 



Hence it is that the Illinois Farmers' Institute has concerned itself 

 about the College of Agriculture and has helped to secure the appropria- 

 tion for the grandest building ever devoted exclusively to agricultural 

 education. Nor is that all. It was largely through the Farmers' Insti- 

 tute that one-half of the United States' appropriation for industrial edu- 

 cation in Illinois is being applied to instruction along strictly agricul- 

 tural lines. 



The funds for the agricultural building and the funds for instruction 

 having been obtained the Institute next turned its attention to securing 

 bright, enthusiastic farmer boys and girls to attend the College of Agri- 

 .culture to avail themselves of these grand opportunities. Eighty-five 

 ^or more applicants have been honored by the Institute in the award of 

 -free scholarships, good for two years of instruction in the College of Ag- 

 riculture of the University of Illinois. There are still a few of these 

 scholarships to be awarded. The awards should all be made before the 

 iiext term opens. Beginning with, the opening of each College year in 

 September, a scholarship will be awarded by the Illinais Farmers' Insti- 

 tute for each county in the State and one for each of the congressional dis- 

 tricts of Chicago. With one captain of industry returned to the farms of 

 each county every year, together with the recruits which he will gather 

 .around him, we will soon have in Illinois a standing army of scientific 

 workers that will do more for the prosperity, peace and business of our 

 State than all the National Guards put together and without the demoral- 

 ization of young men and the expense upon the State of the latter. While 

 the number of farmers' boys and girls who are enabled to attend the agri- 

 cultural college will increase rapidly from year to year, yet the great ma- 

 iority of them will not be able to secure other educational advantages 

 than those of the country school, and what they may learn from books and, 



