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ANNUAL ADDRESS. 



PRES. LOVEJOY JOHNSON, Stillman Valley, III. 



The time-honored custom of requiring the pre- 

 siding officer to prepare an annual address was 

 inaugurated eighteen years ago. From force of habit 

 rather than because the occasion actually requires it, the 

 Executive Committee have filled out the program in the 

 way you see. 



When we look back over the eighteen years that 

 have passed so rapidly by and note the growth of this 

 Association, when we compare the gathering at our 

 annual meetings with the handful of dairy enthusiasts 

 that met and compared notes of the then present and 

 prophesies of the future, we can get some idea of its 

 growth. 



When we compare the dairy industry of to-day with 

 that of twenty years back we must conclude that dairy 

 men do not belong to the "Slow Coach Fraternity." 

 When we compare the physical mental and as a neces- 

 sary consequence the moral condition of the farmer's 

 wife and daughter, under the old-fashioned tin pan, 

 dash churn style of dairying with the present, though 

 imperfectly developed system of factory work, we must 

 conclude that we are not only on the high road to an 

 era of wisdom and wealth, but that we are fast approach- 

 ing an era of improved morals. Release from the 

 drudgery of the dairy kitchen gives opportunity for 

 moral as well as aesthetic culture. While good taste 

 would give too much indulgence in the way of mutual 

 admiration, I cannot help feeling that this Association 

 is entitled to no small amount of credit for this growth 

 and development. 



