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milkmen, too, may get a monopoly of the milk business ; but 

 I think we will work those things all out. 



I am glad to be here with you, gentlemen. It is a beauti- 

 ful day for a meeting, and I am glad to see here so many 

 people, and especially the members of the State Board of 

 Agriculture. I trust that we shall be better acquainted with 

 each other when we get through, and that our deliberations 

 will tend to make for us a better country and better homes, 

 and to make us better Christian men and women. 



Secretary Wheeler here read an invitation from the Spring- 

 field Board of Trade to a reception on December 3, and 

 then called upon Mr. P. M. Harwood of the Dairy Bureau 

 for an announcement- of the prizes awarded in the clean 

 milk contest in the western part of th§ State. 



