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have not had to make the request because it has always 

 been provided for and I sincerely, on behalf of the asso- 

 ciation, thank the business men for all their good work. 



TOASTMASTER : I am sure as the program has gone 

 on and the evidence of good will of Harrisburg has been 

 extended I know of no one that would have more apprecia- 

 tion than the President, who with Mr. Caven, the secretary, 

 has bourne the brunt of the work of putting on this con- 

 vention, and I am sure he would like to say a word. 



MR. W. S. O'HAIR: All good things have an ending. 

 I have attended a good many banquets of different kinds 

 over the State of Illinois and out of the State and I would go 

 further to attend a banquet of the State Dairymen's Asso- 

 ciation than any other banquet I have ever attended, and 

 especially since this man Charley Taylor sold the proposi- 

 tion to us up at Galesburg every thing was bound to suc- 

 ceed. I want to thank you folks for your wonderful co- 

 operation. It would have made it hard for us if we had not 

 had it. I want to thank the business men of this city, and 

 especially your Farm Adviser because he has worked with 

 us and co-operated in every way, and I say to your business 

 men, stand by your Farm Adviser because by and by the 

 coal mines will give out. Not in your life time, perhaps, but 

 some time, but stand by your Farm Adviser; he is helping 

 to build up a great industry that will stand for all time. I 

 want to thank him and especially do I want to thank the 

 ladies, Mrs. Taylor and her fine crop of children. It is no 

 wonder that Charley Taylor's shoulders curve because he 

 has to feed that group of children. Want to thank the 

 folks that gave us this banquet, and if there is any one here 

 that thinks the price is too high, if you will see Mr. Lieber- 

 man he will give you forty cents back. This banquet has 

 been wonderful to me and I think it has to you. The hotels 

 have treated us fine. Never have I been in a town where 

 the hotels have treated us as cordially as they have here, 

 and as Mr. Taylor said Southern Illinois furnishes a lot of 

 things and one is they furnish the best looking women in the 

 State. 



