76 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



appreciation of the hearty response that has come to all our 

 requests. It represents a lot of effort, and more, it repre- 

 sents a community spirit of which you are proud. 



We have one more speaker, and our program would 

 not be complete if we did not call upon our secretary, Mr. 

 Caven, for a word. 



GEORGE CAVEN, Secretary: I would not attempt to 

 qualify as story teller for two reasons. One is that Mr. 

 O'Hair, Mr. Hepburn and Professor Muckelroy have gotten 

 all the stories, and for another reason I have not had the 

 training. Up at Galesburg it was explained how these men 

 could tell so many stories and get away with it by ex- 

 plaining that Mr. O'Hair was a superintendent of a Sunday 

 School and that Doctor Hepburn and Professor Muckelroy 

 were teachers in Sunday Schools. 



Now in the few minutes I have I want to say that some 

 of the local committee came to me this afternoon and they 

 were very much disappointed because the attendance of 

 farmers was not larger than it has been so far but I do not 

 think a large attendance at a first meeting in a community 

 where dairying is being introduced is the most important 

 point. The thing that strikes me as being the most import- 

 ant is that this dairying business has been sold to the busi- 

 ness men of Harrisburg; that the business men are organ- 

 ized and now that they have gotten this idea they are in a 

 position to put it over, and you could not expect that from 

 the farmers because they are not organized and they really 

 don't know, with a few exceptions, what a benefit a meet- 

 ing of this kind is to them. They have to be taught and the 

 business men of Harrisburg will have to follow this idea up 

 in the same way they have been going on with it up to the 

 present time. They have got to back their county adviser 

 and their calf club and in that way you will begin to reap 

 the benefits of this convention. You know we had a lot of 

 farmers over there today. Some good farmers too, and if 

 you can get a few good farmers scattered around in your 

 community, get them started to do the right thing and get 

 to following dairy farming in the right way why you are 



