FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 19i^ 



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I The sire should never be allowed to run with the herd. 

 ^He should be broke to lead and should always be hmdled 

 with a staff. 



All good dairy animals have a highly developed ierv- 

 ous system which has the tendency to make the bulls cioss. 

 The practice of letting the sire run with the herd is dtn- 

 [gerous on this account. 



It is a common occurrence that people get hurt oi 

 killed by a cross bull. To be on the safe side, the bull 

 must always be handled as a dangerous animal. 



I President O'Hair: Now, folks, this closes our Fifty- 

 fSecond Anniversary. I want to just say to you that if you 

 will let your minds go back to the time when you were a 

 boy, as the girl said today at the table, and think along the 

 line of what has been done by the men who have given 

 their time, without pay, to keep this State Dairymen's 

 Association going, they have been a lot of mighty good 

 men, but very few of those men that made it possible have 

 lived to see the results of their efforts today. I have been 

 in it since my twenties, and this is the fifty-second season. 

 It won't be long till somebody else, maybe some of the 

 boys who sit here today, will be the officers of this Asso- 

 ciation, but I do hope, whether it is next year or five years 

 from now, that when we give this over that it will be bet- 

 ter than it is today, better every year. 



We are going to try to make it the best convention 

 in the state, and we just have. There is no use talking, 

 chere is no convention, it would be impossible for any con- 

 jk^ention to have better talent than we have had here, not 

 only in this state but any place in the world as far as that 

 is concerned. We have had the best and the biggest, and 

 lundreds and hundreds of farmers that are in this country 

 iround here should have been here. I don't care if they 

 feed mules or horses or pigs, whatever it is they would 

 lave got their money's worth to come here and listen to 

 ehese men. 



I Next year we will have the convention some place 

 [^Ise in Illinois, probably in the southern part of the state, 

 jind you are all invited to come and attend our banquet, 



