Description: Printed publications describing departmental facilities, needs, accomplishments and programs, including "The University Dairy" (1904), "Department of Dairy Husbandry" (1904-06), "How Dairy Cows Differ," Dairy Lessons 2 and 3 (1907), "Report of the Commission on the Department of Dairy Husbandry" (1923), Achievements of Members of the Dairy Herd (1925), report of the Committee to Study Production and Distribution of Grade A University Milk (1940), Welcome from the Department of Dairy Science (1953), "The Illini Nellie Story" (1961), dairy fieldmen's conference program (1962, 1965), staff publications (1964), A Career in Dairy Science (1964), graduate programs (1965), Dairy Production Club constitution (1965) and staff addresses.
This series includes letters to cooperators and dairymen and DMI supervisors, including Weigh-A-Day-A-Month Records, as well as empty 'Illinois' ice cream cartons used to sell ice cream produced by University of Illinois milking cows.