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instrumental and vocal music given by the men, 

 women, children and dairymaid, for the ample facilities 

 afforded for exhibiting and running dairy machinery, 

 and for the royal way in which we have been enter- 

 tained. 



p ^ ( E. H. Farrington. 



t-> , •".. ■< Mrs. Frank E. Good. 

 Resolutions ) ^ A 



( Ralph Allen. 



The report of the Committee on Resolutions was 

 addopted. 



Mr. A. B. Hostetter: I want to say a word now as 

 a member of the Illinois State Dairymen's Association. 

 Within the last two days there has been a committee 

 appointed by the World's Fair commission to get the 

 views of this association. Now, I want to ask you what 

 have you given me by way of an expression of this asso- 

 ciation that I could take back in regard to what you 

 actually want of the World's Fair. 



The Chairman: We have given you a committee 

 who are to meet as soon as possible, next week proba- 

 bly, to formulate a complete plant and tell you gentlemen 

 what we want, and insist upon your giving it to us. 



Mr. Hostetter : You have very properly appointed 

 a committee to attend to this matter at Champaign, 

 and other committees, but you have made no provision 

 whatever, in regard to how they shall be compensated. 

 If those gentlemen can afford to spend ten or fifteen 

 dollars of their money and time to go there, well and 

 good. I think an institution of this kind ought not to 

 expect to put so important a work as that into the 

 hands of men without making some provision for at 

 least paying their expenses. I know how hard it is to 

 interest the dairymen of this State, or to get any sort 

 of action among them. There will be a great deal of 



