STATE DAIRY ASSOCIATION. 533 



The President: I don't know that there will be any better opportunity 

 to say that in holding the next meeting of the State Dairy Association at 

 Purdue University. Lafayette, I will assure you that you will be given an 

 opportunity of attending one of the best meetings in the history of the 

 Indiana State Dairy Association. Both the Secretary and myself being 

 located there, we will use every effort with the Executive Committee to 

 make the attendance satisfactory; to have a class of lectures and enter- 

 tainments of the very highest and most profitable sort, in view of the fact 

 that we shall have completed and in working operation the new Agri- 

 cultural Building at Purdue, and in the basement of which will be one of 

 the best equipped and arranged dairy schools in the United States; and I 

 am not making extravagant statements when I say this. I think you will 

 find attractions there that will satisfy the people in coming to Lafayette 

 at that time from any part of the State, so I hope all of you will consider 

 that I have given each of you now a personal invitation to be our guest 

 at the time of our annual meeting. I think it would be a wise plan if 

 possible to hold it a little later, early in the next year after the students 

 are all at work and the dairy is in operation so that you can see a feature 

 of it that could not be shown if it was in December, before the term 

 opens. The question is asked whether it would not be a good idea to get 

 the judgment of those present whether it would be wise to hold the meet- 

 ing in January instead of December. That would call for skipping over 

 the entire year of 1902. It would really mean two annual meetings in 

 one year, one early in 1903 and the other late in 1903. Those of you that 

 are in favor of holding the meeting in January, so as to take advantage 

 of the work at the University, raise your hands. (Almost unanimous.) 

 The feeling seen:!S to be in favor of the January meeting. I don't know 

 that it makes any particular difference whether we hold two meetings 

 eleven months apart or thirteen months apart. 



In view of the fact that we have quite a number of people who came 

 here to hear the papers, and as we have given some time to business, we 

 will take up the program if there be no objection. 



The first subject on the program is "Dairying as an Occupation for 

 Women," by Mrs. Gregg, but she is not present. 



The Secretary: Mr. President, I received a telegram from Mr. Coleman 

 saying his train was late, and he missed connection at Indianapolis, and 

 he could not arrive here until this afternoon, and so it was useless to come. 



The President: Mrs. Lament is here, and we will hear from her. 

 Mrs. Lamont has been very successful for a number of years in winning 

 premiums, both in the State Dairy Association and also the State Fair at 

 Indianapolis, and we will all be gratified to hear what she has to say on 

 this subject. 



