182 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



ONE DAY MEETING OF THE ILLINOIS STATE 



DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION, HELD IN THE 



CITY HALL AT JACKSONVILLE, 



DECEMBER 9, 1916. 



Mr. Charles S. Black, of Jacksonville, 

 Chairman of the Meeting 



Chairman : "Gentlemen, you will please come to order 

 now. We will start our meeting. Several days ago when some 

 of the gentlemen asked me to be chairman of this meeting I 

 refused, feeling that I was incapable of so doing, but they in- 

 sisted, and so I am here with you today in that capacity. 



This subject of dairying is something that has been very 

 dear to my heart for a number of years. I am not very well 

 posted on dairying. I am a farmer, was bom and raised close 

 to Jacksonville and have lived here all my life and have been 

 selling whole milk here for the past twelve or fifteen years. I 

 now have 75 head of cattle of one kind and another, so you 

 see I don't know so very much about dairying, but nevertheless 

 farming is my principal business. 



We have a splendid list of speakers here for this afternoon, 

 and I am sorry that there are not more farmers here to listen 

 to their talks this afternoon which I know will be very interest- 

 ing and instructive. 



The first speaker on the program is Mr. George Caven, of 

 Chicago, secretary of the Illinois State Dairymen's Association, 

 who will talk to you on, 'The Object of the Illinois State Dairy- 

 men's Association'." 



Mr. Caven. 



''Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



We who make it not a business but a practice, when we have 

 time, of trying to carry out the object of the Illinois State 

 Dairymen's Association, are not always discouraged when we 

 get only a small audience to talk to at a dairy meeting, especially 



