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numeration of the dairyman for loss sustained in slaughtering 

 cows responding to the tuberculin test. We should also encour- 

 age liberal appropriations for the department of dairy husbandry 

 at the University. 



In closing, we wish again to most heartily thank you for 

 the welcome you extend to us, and in giving us the liberty of the 

 city. I assure you that there is no need to increase the police 

 force. An official statement has been made by the Warden of 

 the penitentiary at Joliet that only 49-100 of 1 per cent of the 

 inmates of that institution were, at the time of their arrest and 

 conviction, engaged in agricultural pursuits. So you see we are 

 quiet, peaceable citizens, drink milk, go to bed early, and get up 

 early. There is no doubt in my mind he was a dairyman in 

 embryo who said : "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man 

 healthy, wealthy and wise." 



I thank you. 



By the President: — The next thing on the program is the 

 same old thing, the annual address of the President. He always 

 gets stuck for considerable work, and then has to write a paper 

 about it. 1 am glad I shall not have as much trouble getting this 

 address before you as Gov. Deneen did before the legislature. 



ANNUAL ADDRESS. 



By 



President L. N. Wiggins, Springfield, III. 



Members of the Illinois State Dairymen's Association and 

 Friends : — 



We meet this year in the "Heart of the Corn Belt" ; within a 

 stone's throw of a new creamery enterprise. The Dairy Cow, 

 the Foster mother of the Nation, is making her commercial in- 



