State Dairymen's Session. 



Tuesday, January 5, 1909. 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



(By P. P. Lewis, Crescent, Mo.) 



Members of the Missouri State Dairy Association, Ladies and 

 Gentlemen : 



It is with a great deal of pleasure and not without some pride 

 that I am permitted, at this time, to call your attention to a few 

 of the many good things that this Association stands for and has 

 accomplished during the nineteenth year of its existence. 



In the beginning, those who fathered this Association ap- 

 preciated the adaptability of this grand old commonwealth for 

 dairy purposes. They felt that in the organization and coming 

 together of the dairymen at least once in each year, great and 

 lasting good would be accomplished in the exchange of ideas, 

 experiences and observations, and in this manner they would be 

 enabled to secure the best results from their chosen avocations 

 in the shorter route of experience, in that they would profit from 

 that of others. 



Since this organization was launched, the best men in this 

 splendid work have met together and have accomplished great 

 good for themselves, their neighbors, and their State. By con- 

 stant agitation and by advocating this phase of farm life they 

 have brought it to the attention of the thinking men in every walk 

 of life, having lifted themselves, with others, who have engaged 

 in this business, from the common "mossback" or hayseed to what 

 is now considered to be one of the most scientific — and when prop- 

 erly handled — profitable businesses in which a man on the farm 

 can engage. 



Year after year this Association has brought into our State 

 men who are abundantly well qualified to speak upon the various 



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