FIFTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONVENTION 79 



TO ASTMASTER : Friends when you think of the hour 

 that is about to close we almost hesitate to declare the Fifty 

 Third Annual Convention, so far as the banquet is con- 

 cerned, closed, and if we had to rely in some tangible way 

 to make an expression of our feelings as dairymen of the 

 kindness we have received down here I don't know how 

 we should express it unless we should buy some kind of a 

 medal and make a speech, but it seems the other angle is 

 a case where virtue is its own reward. It is a case where 

 unselfish service exerts itself. Unselfish service will build 

 a town; it will build a state; it will build an individual. I 

 don't know how we coul dclose this banquet better than to 

 recommend to you unselfish service, and I officially declare 

 the Fifty Third Banquet closed. 



