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we have never failed to get up a complete stenographic report of our 

 annual meeting, and we did it the past two years. Mr. Reser, who has 

 veiy ably officiated as stenographer for this Association at numerous of 

 its meetings, was, fortunately for us, elected to the Legislature from 

 Tippecanoe County, and occupied a position on the Ways and Means Com- 

 mittee of the House, and we have to thanli him for vigorously champion- 

 ing our cause. He carried his point, and, through his efforts, we ai'e 

 better off this year and next year by our State aid. Now, I will confess, 

 in talking frankly, I have been disappointed with the way the dairymen 

 of Indiana have supported this organization. We have had numerous 

 meetings that I considered most excellent. In some of the places we have 

 held our meetings we have had crowded halls; we have had people come 

 from other States, and we have had some of the best daiiy authorities in 

 the United States lecture before us, and our meetings were entirely a 

 success. But the people of the State who are interested in the great dairy 

 interests have not taken hold and put their shoulder to the wheel to make 

 this Dairy Association what they should make it, and in that way I have 

 been disappointed. There are many of you here who know something of 

 the hard times that the dairymen of Indiana have been going through, 

 and particularly the creamery interests; and there are creamerymen in 

 the State who have felt that the creamery interests have not received 

 satisfactory consideration by the Dairy Association, and yet I feel that we 

 have endeavored to do everything we could for the general good of the 

 dairy interests of the State. This year we have made special provision 

 for the creamery interests, and this morning we have three papers on our 

 program representing the creamery interests. I am very sorry to saj^ that 

 not one of the three persons that represents these interests is here this 

 morning, and I think it is the first time in the history of this Association 

 for years when so large a number have been absent from any part of the 

 program for a day. Undoubtedly there are good reasons for the absence 

 of these persons on the progi-am, but I simply call your attention to this 

 to show that the Dairy Association wished to malve itself, in every sense 

 of the word, as useful as possible to the people of Indiana. 



I feel very sure that before our two days' session is over we will 

 have a large attendance of dairymen, and we wish to make this meet- 

 ing as profitable as possible for all concerned; so let each one take an 

 active part in the proceedings, and help to make it of such a free and easy 

 character that, by the time we adjourn tomorrow afternoon, all of those 

 who have gone to trouble and expense to attend will feel that this 

 has been a very profitable meeting. I am sure that we will have the 

 necessai-y dairy talent to make it a successful and instructive one. We 

 will have a selection now by the band, and then we will go on with the 

 program. 



Music by Reform School Band. 



