ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. i ^g, 



useful and honest citizens and that the Dairymen's Association and tiie 

 Farmers' Institute are creating a public sentiment in favor of commercial 

 morality. The fight against the adulteration of food products is on and 

 will be continued until victory is gained on the side of justice and truth. 

 We have outlined in a general way that the Farmers' Institute is 

 helping td develop the farmer as a man and a citizen. That it is helping 

 him in a business way by making him acquainted with the discoveries 

 and results of scientific investigations. It is also giving him the oppor- 

 tunity to compare methods and experiences with his fellow farmers, the' 

 most direct benefit of all the institute work. It is also supporting and 

 encouraging the agricultural collcjge and distributing books in the rural, 

 districts. There is yet one feature of the work I have not mentioned; 

 that is the department of domestic science, or the domestic science asso- 

 ciations v/hich are aflaiiated with the Farmers' Institutes, the work of 

 which is being carried on by the ladies. It is said that "men can not live 

 without cooks." So you see this last department is the most important, 

 of all. The character of a man and the character of a nation depends- 

 largely upon what the man eats, what a man drinks, also affects his char- 

 acter and his eating affects his drinking. That the housekeper and home- 

 maker should have a thorough knowledge of the composition and yalue^ 

 of foods and be skilled in their preparation for the highest development 

 of the body and brain, becomes a question of vital importance, not only ta 

 the individual, but to the nation as well. When we consider that the- 

 home is the very foundation of our social institutions, the fountain of all. 

 happiness, peace, and prosperity, then to organize for the purpose of de- 

 veloping all those branches of domestic economy which sustain and per- 

 fect the home, is a most important step. The ladies' clubs and domestic: 

 science associations are doing a .<reat amount of good; their efforts to- 

 have instruction on the lines of liome-making and housekeeping in the 

 public schools is a most laudabla one. However, be.fore there can be in- 

 struction on these lines, there must be teachers. Hence, the need for a 

 department of domestic science in the University of Illinois, where 

 teachers can be trained, I should like to have the Illinois Dairymen's. 



