PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



Thirty-Fifth Annual Convention 



OF 



Illinois State Dairymen's Association 



HELD AT 



Clinton, Illinois, January 19, 20 and 21, 1909. 



The Illinois Dairymen's Association met in annual session 

 at the Court House, in Clinton, Illinois, January 19, 1909, at 

 10 :30 A. M. President L. N. Wiggins in the chair. 



By the President : — We will come to order on this our 35th 

 annual meeting. It is a number of years older than I am, but I 

 expect there are some men here who attended the firt meeting. 

 I am sure Mr. Lumbard did and there must be others. 



For the benefit of strangers at our meetings, 1 wish to state 

 the object of this association. We are banded together, as most 

 associations are, for the general distribution of dairy knowledge. 

 We have no political axes to grind. There are no salaries con- 



