76 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Tuesday Evening, January 17, 1911. 



Joseph Newman : Ladies and Gentlemen, we will open our 

 exercises tonight with singing by the Boys' Club of the High 

 School under the direction of the music teacher, Miss Baer. 



At the 37th annual meeting of the Illinois State Dairymen's 

 Association I am glad to stand before you. Our President is a 

 little shy and does not like to face this audience, so has asked 

 me to take charge of the meeting, and I am always willing to do 

 what little I can. I am a sidewalk dairyman. 



We have with us tonight one of the leading dairymen of 

 this section who will introduce the speaker, Mr. Judson D. 

 Mason, of Elgin. 



Mr. Mason : It is most appropriate to have with us a man 

 like Professor Davenport. There is no section where there are 

 more finely bred dairy cattle or better kept farms or better dairy- 

 men nor is there any place where there is better milk produced 

 than in this Fox River Valley. We have with us a man who has 

 done much in agricultural lines in Illinois and it gives me great 

 pleasure to introduce Professor Eugene Davenport, Dean of our 

 Agricultural College. 



