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meeting here that we want to get a picture of this whole crowd 

 so that we can send it to the state and show what we can do. 

 We will take a recess of fifteen minutes and go to the outside and 

 then we will come right back as soon as the photographer can 

 snap you; arrange yourselves in front of the building and then 

 come back. Rise as an army and march out there. 



President : Ladies and Gentlemen : Mr. Phil Haner of 

 Taylorville is here this afternoon and I want him to make a few 

 remarks to you in regard to the Live Stock Breeders' Associa- 

 tion, which is to meet in Springfield next month. 



Mr. Haner: This is the best Dairy Association meeting I 

 ever attended, and I want to congratulate you people of Elgin 

 and this district in your good meeting. 



I am in the live stock business ; I am a farmer and a feeder. 

 There is no question but what all kinds of live stock business i,s 

 a benefit to our land. I do not want to take your time as Mr. 

 Peters is going to follow me, but I want to say just a few words 

 with reference to a meeting we are going to have in Springfield 

 on February 7th, 8th and 9th, the State Breeders' Association ; 

 we will have hogs, sheep and dairy cattle. 



This meeting was set for Springfield to have the people, the 

 members of the Legislature and the Senate know that the live 

 stock people in Illinois are alive and awake. We are asked to do 

 a lot of things that we are not able to do financially. 



One thing is that we are doing a lot of work to benefit all 

 kinds of live stock. The live stock people have never gotten to- 

 gether ; they have never shown the interest that they should show. 



I want to use this illustration : The labor organizations get 

 all the appropriations they want. Their office is across from 

 ours. These people get it all. Why? Because they are organ- 

 ized ; they go to their members. Every one was waited on be- 

 fore the Legislature met, consequently they are anxious to help 

 those people. You have not been getting what you need, we 

 have not been getting what we need. It is because the farmers 



