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folks as well as to your neighbors in the country. The direc- 

 tors have been to considerable pains to get well informed speak- 

 ers here, and I hope your people will come and avail themselves 

 of what will be for them on the program. I know that we will 

 all enjoy ourselves socially. I have no fear but what wx that 

 have come here from some distance will find it very profitable 

 and I hope that you here will find it somewhat so. I thank you." 

 ( Applause. ) 



Mr. Mason : "Owing to the absence of the next speaker on 

 the program, we will call on Mr. H. P. Irish of Farina, Illinois, 

 who is a southern Illinois dairyman, to give us a short talk and 

 then we will proceed with the program. If he is not in the room 

 I will call on Mr. Charles Foss of Cedarville, Illinois, who is 

 from northern Illinois.'' 



Mr. Foss: 



"Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



It is not a very easy task to take somebody else's place when 

 you are not accustomed to public speaking. I am a dairyman, I 

 know how to milk a cow and do it as fast as the average man can, 

 but when it comes to making speeches I am not so good — I have 

 got to have some sketch when I have anything to say. 



About three or four days ago I received a letter from Mr^ 

 Caven stating that it was very likely that Mr. Jarvis, who was 

 in Texas, would not be able to return in time for this meeting, 

 and requested me to take his place on the program. I have a set 

 of charts that I use when I speak on the dairy subject, and I 

 rolled them up very nicely yesterday and, as I could not put them 

 in my grip, when I got into the train I put them in the rack and 

 left them there. When I discovered my oversight I spoke to the 

 depot master and he said it would be impossible to get them un- 

 til this morning, so I am compelled to do without them, much to 

 my regret. 



I am going to give you a little talk this morning. I have 

 the impression that the vicinity of Danville is not so extensively 

 engaged in dairy farming as we are in Northern Illinois. I live 

 in Stephenson county, siv miles south of the Wisconsin line, and 



