FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 103 



Pioneer Creamery Company, who has always been an active 

 worker in the Illinois State Dairy Association. (Applause.) 



Mr. Louis Nielson: Mr. Toastmaster, ladies and gen- 

 tlemen: Our Toastmaster has a state-wide reputation for 

 an unlimited fund of wit and humor, and which you have 

 no doubt found out by now. 



We have among us this evening a number of promi- 

 nent men and eloquent speakers from whose lips wisdom 

 and wit and humor will fall like glittering pearls, and I 

 shall not take very much of your time ; I shall take the hint 

 that the toastmaster gives us. 



I want to say at this time that we are glad to be per- 

 mitted to entertain the Illinois Dairymen's Association, the 

 members and delagates, and the prominent men who are 

 instructing us in better dairying this week; and as a rep- 

 resentative of the dairy industry in Galesburg I assure you 

 that you are welcome, and we want you to come again to 

 the best city in the State of Illinois. (Applause.) 



I want to say that we have had the best chairman of 

 our convention committee that can be found anywhere. 

 Mr. Henry Hawkinson has been untiring in arranging 

 everything so that it went off smoothly, and if anything 

 has been left undone to make your stay comfortable and 

 to make you feel at home, it is due to a lack of knowing 

 how and not to a lack of willingness or effort on our part. 

 We want to make this the best convention that has ever 

 been held. 



You will perhaps notice at all our luncheons and at 

 our banquet tonight we have served almost entirely dairy 

 products. It has been the chief part of the menu. In other 

 words we have dedicated the week to dairy products, and 

 I am sure you will appreciate the value of that great in- 

 dustry. 



Our Mr. Crissey has been busy hauling the genial and 

 versatile President of your Association all over Knox and 

 Warren counties. You know, of course, that Mr. O'Hair 

 is a big dairyman and also a famous Jersey cattle breeder. 

 What you perhaps do not know is that he is also a big poli- 

 tician. He claims that Edgar County is one hundred per 



