FOURTEENTH ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE INDIANA 

 STATE DAIRY ASSOCIATION, PLYMOUTH, INDIANA. 



WEDNESDAY MORNING. 



December 10, 1903, 10 o'clock, a. m. 



The Fourteenth Annual Session of the Indiana State Dairy Associa- 

 tion was called to order bj- President Samuel Sehlosser, of Plymouth. 



Invocation by Rev. C. A. Brooke. 



The Association was welcomed to Plymouth by the Mayor, D. C. 

 Knott, as follows: 



Mayor Knott: The citizens of Plymouth and Marshall County feel 

 grateful this morning to know that the Fourteenth Annual Dairy Conven- 

 tion of the State of Indiana is in session in our city. I deem it an honor, 

 as well as a pleasure, this morning to extend to you a most hearty wel- 

 come to our city. 



Your members represent an industry the magnitude of which is but 

 little understood by the average citizen, and more especially by those of 

 us who have not made a study of it. 



It is an industry that has attained a magnitude second to but one in 

 this country. It is an industry that represents in the State of Indiana its 

 millions, and in the United States, or in this country, way up into the 

 billions of dollars. There is more capital represented (as I get it from 

 statistics) in the dairy business five times over than in all the banks in 

 the United States. We know l)ut little of it here in this vicinity. It is 

 practically a new industry with us. Yours is an industry in which in- 

 dolonco and ignorance cut but little figure. It is an industry that requires 

 intelligence, energy and acumen. It requires not only the study of the 

 anatomy or physiology of a particular cow. but it involves the chemical 

 study of the different kinds of feed, and their relative values as food prod- 

 ucts. Tli(» intelligent dairyman studies to secure the greatest iwssible 

 results, witli tlie least possible expense in securing it. It may seem a 

 little mercenary on your part to try to get all you can out of the poor 

 cow, and give but little; but that is science, and that is what you are after 

 here. I believe this Association will prove of great benefit, not only to 

 ourselves of tliis community, l>ut to all our visitors. It is not my purpose 



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