ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 

 HELD AT DANVILLE, ILL., JANUARY 30, 31 

 AND FEBRUARY 1, 1917, 



TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 30TH, 1917 



The 'Forty-Third Annual Convention of the Illinois State 

 Dairymen's Association was opened by a parade at 9:30 

 a. m. of dairy cattle through the main streets of Danville, fol- 

 lowed by a number of prominent dairymen of tlie v^aricus dairy- 

 mg states. 



The meeting, held at the Chamber of Commerce Building, 

 was officially opened by the President, Honorable J. P. Mason, 

 of Elgin, Illinois, at 10:30 a. m. 



Mr. Mason : "The first number on our program this morn- 

 ing is an address of welcome by the Mayor of Danville." (Ap- 

 plause.) 



Attorney O. M. Jones, on Behalf of the Mayor 



'']\Ir. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



Owing to the inability of the ]\Iayor of Danville to be with 

 vou this morning to welcome your Association to our city, he 

 has delegated me to do that for him. 



We appreciate the importance of your organization. There 

 is perhaps no other business that so vitally affects the health and 

 the welfare of the people of the whole State of Illinois as the 

 business in which you are engaged, and we as citizens of Dan- 

 ville are proud to have you come here to our city ; we feel com- 

 plimented, and as a result of that feeling the Chamber of Com- 



