684 BOARD OF AGRICITLTURE. 



Mr. KeiEEer: That will come up under the hand separator talk to- 

 morrow. It is a large subject and will take considerable time to get 

 into it. 



President Johnson: We will now have the report of the Secretary- 

 Treasurer for last year. 



Secretary-Treasurer Van Norman: Before I begin to inflict these 

 figures upon you I can not refrain from expressing my personal gratifica- 

 tion at the attendance which we have this morning. I have been asked 

 by a great many people why we came to Indianapolis for a dairy con- 

 vention, because we would not be able to get a corporal's guard. With 

 the executive committee we canvassed the situation very carefully, and 

 consulted the enthusiastic ones living within 20 miles of this place, and 

 they seemed to think if we worked we could have a good convention 

 here, and we are here today, and this is the result. 



(See financial statement, page 120.) 



President Johnson: Our time is now up, and if there is nothing 

 further to come before the Association at this time we will adjourn to 

 meet at 1:30 this afternoon. Please be prompt. 



(The meeting stood adjourned until 1:30.) 



THURSDAY AFTEKXOOiSr. 



President Johnson: The first thing on the program this afternoon 

 is the appointment of committees, but for the present we will pass this, 

 and take it up later. We will now take up "The Profitable Cow," by Prof. 

 C. S. Plumb. Prof.' Plumb was one of the charter members of the Indiana 

 Dairy Association. Mr. Plumb has seen fit to leave our State and to 

 go to Ohio, and is now with the Ohio State University, as Professor 

 of Animal Husbandry. 



Prof. C. S. Plumb: It may surprise some people in this audience, 

 in view of the fact that I come from Ohio, that I probably know move 

 people in this room tlian any convention I could go to in the United States. 

 That means that I am probably as much at home here as anywhere. I 

 see a good many faces— people who have been coming to these conven- 

 tions from the beginning— but I guess I am the only person in the room 

 who attended the first meeting of the Dairy Association in 1891. 



My address is not as short as I wisli it Avere, but if I make sIoav time, 

 I'll cut it off in places. 



