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Mr. Kimsey: — Mr. President, I move the stenographer be 

 authorized to cast the ballot for the Association. 



All in favor say **Aye." Contrary? None. Carried. 



By the President: — I thank you for the honor conferred. 

 I consider it a working proposition. If you don't think so, try 

 it. The point is this : If we are able to continue in the dairy 

 business in this state in a practical way, we have got to stick 

 together and help one another all we can. I hope you have all 

 joined our Association and got this book. If not, please get one 

 and give it to a man who don't want to read it, and make him. 

 I can heartily recommend the stand taken by our University. 

 If there are any questions or any meetings you want to organize, 

 if you will call on the officers of this Association we will be 

 glad to help you. You are all members of this Association; if 

 not, you ought to be. So step over to the hall and get a book 



I thank you. 



CARING FOR A DAIRY COW. 



By N. P. Hull, DIamondale, Mich. 



Ladies and Gentlemen: — I am glad to be with you today. 

 I met with your Association last year, and I felt as though I 

 would like to come back again. I guess I felt like a certain boy 

 who was going to school. It seems that the teacher had been 

 teaching them to punctuate, and she did not know whether they 

 were catching on or not, so she wrote a sentence on the board, 

 and asked them to punctuate it. This is what she wrote. ''I 

 saw the beautiful Mary Ann crossing the muddy street holding 

 her skirt and showing a pretty foot and neatly turned ankle. 

 She turned to her class and said, "How would you punctuate thai- 

 Henry?" He said, "I would make a period after ankle." She 

 then turned to Timothy and asked him. He looked a minute 

 and said, "I think I would make a comma after street." ''How 



