ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 73 
were being made at the Industrial School at Champaign, 
in dairying ? 
He learned there were none, whereupon he offered the 
following resolution, which was adopted: 
“ Resolved, that the Illinois State Dairymen’s Associa¬ 
tion appeal to the Illinois Industrial University that they 
take up experiments relating to economy in feeding and 
kindred subjects connected with dairying.” 
Thomas Bishop said if corn fodder is of no use he was 
glad to learn it, for some of his neighbors often cut up 
twenty acres; now if we are losing all this labor, let us 
quit it. 
Jno. Periam, of the “ Prairie Farmer,” said that to 
make experiments which would be of real value to the 
dairymen of Illinois, would cost a great deal of money; 
there should be three stations, one north, one central and 
one south; these would cost twenty thousand dollars each, 
which during these depressed times, would look like a 
large sum for those engaged in other pursuits, who were 
taxed equally with us to keep them up. He thought the 
Industrial University would make experiments as soon as 
they were able; in fact, they were commencing now; he 
thought the school was coming every year nearer and 
nearer what we would like to have it. We could have 
much to do with shaping its course, if we saw fit. 
Topic No. 13 was againtaken up, when S. K. Williams 
read the following paper: 
S. K. WILLIAMS’ ADDRESS. 
“ What is the best and most economical method of handling milk to 
make butter ?” . 
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention: I do not 
propose to describe in detail the modus operandi of making butter, but 
