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cent of the people of the country being here. There is no 

 question of the prosperity she brings to the community she 

 is in and most any business of any kind reaps a benefit 

 from it, and with all of this we have to bow to the dairy 

 cow. We must not forget her. A meeting of this kind is to 

 further the cow into better breeds and better production. 

 We the Harrisburg Dairy Products Company manufacturing 

 a dairy production wish to thank the many persons of the 

 Illinois University and our local fellows who have lent a 

 willing hand to make it such a success as it has been. 



THE TOASTMASTER: We now have the pleasure of 

 looking at and listening to the famous Kiwanis Quartet. I 

 heard of this quartet before I came to Harrisburg. I don't 

 know but what Charley Taylor told us about it when he 

 came up to Galesburg. 



The Kiwanis Quartet sang several selections. (Great 

 applause.) 



THE TOASTMASTER: I am sorry you did not draw 

 applause like that Mr. O'Hair. 



MR. O'HAIR: Try it again, I might do better. 



THE TOASTMASTER: A girl walked into a drug 

 store and told the druggist she wanted a package of dye, 

 and he said, "what kind do you want.'' She said, "I want 

 as fashionable a dye as I can get." He said, "what does 

 your mother want to dye? Does she want it to dye clothes?" 

 She said, "No : the doctor said mamma had stomach trouble 

 and she was going to have to diet and she wanted to diet 

 with something fashionable." 



Now the next speaker is one of the men that has made 

 dairying fashionable. I think Professor Eraser is the pioneer 

 on the subject of dairying, and I am glad to introduce him 

 on this subject at this time. 



PROF. W. J. ERASER, of the University of Illinois: 

 I believe a year ago over at Galesburg I promised at that 

 time to read a tribute to the cow one year from then at 



