ANNUAL MEETING 



OF THE 



Indiana Shorthorn Breeders' Association, 



MEETING OF SHOKTHORN BREEDERS ASSOCIATION, 



FEBRUARY 19, 1903. 



The meeting was called to order by the President at 10 o'clock 

 a. m. 



The Secretary's and Treasnrer's ro|)orts were read and adopted. 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



For the thirty-first time has this organization met in annual meetinc;. 

 and of all the Presidents you have had noiu' have felt more proud of that 

 honor than the present one. Proud, not fpr the emoluments of the office, 

 but to think that an association organized for such a purpose should 

 deem me worthy of the highest office in their power to bestow. I hope 

 that I have done nothing to bring disgrace upon the association, but if 

 I have, I assure you, gentlemen, that it was done without thought. 



We are glad to have as many with us today as we have and hope the 

 time may come when every Shorthorn brccnler in this, the grandest of 

 all these United States, will consider that it is not only a duty he owes 

 to himself, but a special privilege for wliich he slioidd be devoutly 

 thankful, not only to become a member l)Ut to actually participate in 

 every meeting of such an organization as ours. 1 say it is a duty he 

 owes to himself, for it is only ))y the constant rultliing up against the 

 other fellow in this world, procuring his ideas, and then assimilating 

 them with our own that we become experts in any line of business. The 

 merchant who keeps a line of goods deinandcil liy the trade and not the 

 one who travels along in the well beaten path of forty years ago, is the 

 one who is going to succeed. I do not mean l)y this that we are to cast 

 aside all the old as entirely unfit for use. but we should profit l)y the 



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