12 Illinois State Dairymen's Association. 



RESPONSE TO ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



Mr. Joseph Newman, Elgin, III. 



Mr. Chairman, Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Ilh- 

 nois State Dairy Association: — 



It is a pleasure to respond to the cordial welcome that the 

 mayor of Marengo has given us. I was satisfied, when I heard 

 that they had selected Marengo as a meeting place for us this 

 year, that they had made no mistake. Marengo, situated, as 

 she is, in the center of the fifty miles that furnish a large por- 

 tion of the milk for the city of Chicago, viz : the sanitary milk 

 that is being fed to the little ones in the large city, is geographi- 

 cally situated right. I knew some of the people here were right 

 also, and I have had further proof of that within the last hour, 

 having just come from friend Gilkerson's well spread table. 



Perhaps you might wish to know the aims of the association 

 and who compose it. The association is open for membership 

 to all dairymen and all those who are interested in dairying in 

 any way, shape or manner, either in the owning of cows, the 

 owning of farms, the manufacture of dairy utensils or the trans- 

 portation of the products, and we hope that all who visit us at 

 this institution during this meeting will become members of 

 this association. 



We are working with the agricultural department at Cham- 

 paign our state university, which as you well know has become 

 one of the first universities in the United States this year, having 

 over four thousand students, and the agricultural part has more 

 than kept pace with the balance of the university. We shall hear 

 from Professor Lee who has worked among you for the past 

 five years, we also hope to have Mr. Glover with us during the 

 session. The Association works also with the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture. They have been very kind in helping Illinois 

 and have sent Mr. Credicott here to score the butter. You see 

 these are all your own departments; you all help to build up 

 these associations and they are kept alive through taxation, and 

 of course the United States department is kept by the internal 

 revenue department. 



