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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
and bitter affliction, and consolingly points thcm to Unvi 
who “ tempers the wind to the shorn lamb and carcth 
these resolutions, signed by 
the president and secretary of this association be sen 
the family of the deceased, and that they be printed in the 
journal of proceedings. ^ R McLean , 
1\ IX "Pi T) mTT a d 
The president announced that he had just 
a telegram from Gov. Cullom, which he read as 
received 
follows: 
Springfield, III., Dec. io, 1879. 
D, ~ {'have lof been able to leave home to attend your c ""' 
vention. Hope you will have a pleasant and piofitab e 
session. I regret that I cannot be with you^to-day. ^ 
Question No. 7 was brought up again, but as noth¬ 
ing was said on the subject, it was passed, and 
Question No. 8 — “ The defects in the management of 
the dairy business in this state; what are they, and how 
can they be remedied ? ’’—taken up. The following paper 
by Israel Boies, on this subject, was then read by the sec- 
retary : 
I. BOIES' PAPER. 
Gentlemen: I feel that I have not brains enough to 
do justice to this subject, and were it not that you hav^ 
selected three other men to address you on this qucsti 
able men—I would think the subject would faic slim, 
would be like offering skim cheese in a full-cream cheese 
market. But to the subject, h irst—a want of systc ,. 
much slip-shod work, cows neglected, irregularity m fee g, 
irregularity in milking. I say that half of the cows that 
