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Thy blessing upon the officers, upon those who come here and 

 those who shall direct them and speak to them and instruct them 

 and give them all attentive ears to hear, and then to go out and 

 put into practice the good things learned here. But above all 

 else, may we put into practice the good things we get from Thy 

 Word. May we remember to do good to all men. And, our 

 Heavenly Father, we pray Thee to forgive us anything we may 

 have done wrong in the past. We pray Thy blessing again 

 upon these men. Give them wisdom, and may such good re- 

 sult, and such blessings as are good for us and Thy people ev- 

 erywhere. We ask it in Jesus' Name. Amen. 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



Hon. E. N. Woodruff, Mayor of Peoria. 



Mr. Chairman, Gentlemen of the Illinois Dairymen's As- 

 sociation : 



I count it a privilege to be able to say' to this organization 

 for the people of Peoria, in the name of the city of Peoria, that 

 you are indeed welcome here. I dare say that you will perhaps 

 deny that you are in a sense occupying a public function. As 

 an organization, in your endeavor, in your research, in your ap- 

 plication of applied science concerning the dairy industries of 

 this state, and incidentally of the nation, you are, as a conven- 

 tion, as an organization, occupying a public position. In fact, 

 you are doing public work. Because you are public servants in 

 a sense, in the interest of the promotion of the economy of this 

 industry, you have finally concluded that, after all, public of- 

 ficials, public organizations maintained and operated by the 



