PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWELFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION 

 OF THE INDIANA STATE DAIRY ASSOCIA- 

 TION, PLAINFIELD, INDIANA. 



WEDNESDAY MORNING SESSION. 



December 18, 1901. 



The Indiana State Dairy Association was called to order by the 

 President, C. S. Plumb. 



Music by the Reform School Band. 

 Invocation by Rev. L. E. Stout, Plainfield, Ind. 



President: The Hon. Edward Ban-ett, of Plainfield, will extend greet- 

 ing to the State Dairy Association in annual meeting assembled at Plain- 

 field. 



Hon. Edward Barrett: Members of the Indiana State Dairy Associa- 

 tion, Ladies and Gentlemen— On behalf of the local dairymen and the 

 citizens of Plainfield, we welcome you to our village with the best it has. 

 You come to us a State organization, to a town lilie Plainfield, with the 

 best and richest thought of three, at least, of the best scientific schools 

 in the United States— our own Purdue University, the State University of 

 Ohio, and the State University of Illinois. You bring to us, I say, the very 

 latest and richest tliought on these various subjects that these schools 

 have at hand. You not only bring to us these, but you bring to us the 

 best thought of many others who are on the program — local dairymen — 

 who can speali to us from experience of their actual observation, actual 

 contact with the work of daii-ymen. It is easily within the memory of 

 the youngest daiiyman here when the machinery of the dairy consisted of 

 a tin bucket and a skimmer. You come to us at Machinery Hall with the 

 latest thoughts and inventions in reference to dairy machinery, which will 

 be on exhibition there. You come to us with some of the finest products 

 of the dairy farm, not only of the country dairy, but the tubs, which you 

 exhibit in our hall, for all of which and all of these we are thankful; 

 and I wish to say^ that we are thankful to have you here as men, and 

 hope that you will be treated wherever you go with the milk of human 

 kindness, and hope that you will skim off a goodly share of cream and 

 good cheer and good will. (Applause.) 



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