10 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



Dr. E. L. Damron, Mayor of Effingham. 



President : The next on our program will be an address of 

 welcome by the Mayor of Effingham. 



Dr. E. L. Damron : Mr. President and Gentlemen of the 

 State Dairy Association : I appreciate the honor of having 

 been asked to open this meeting. We gladly welcome you to our 

 City, and I assure you the courtesy that you will receive from 

 the citizens of Effingham will justify every statement that the 

 officers of this County Association have made to you. 



I wish to personally thank the officers of the Effingham 

 County Dairy Association for having been successful in bring- 

 ing this meeting to our City. It is indeed a pleasure to live in 

 a County where its citizens are wide awake, trying to keep 

 abreast with the advancement of the times. 



It is a fact, for several years past, that a few men have 

 clone more for posterity than posterity has done for us. The 

 resources of this vast country are limited. We have begun to 

 realize that for everything we take, we must give something 

 in return. The old-timers in making trails through the new 

 country went up hill and down dale, the easiest way they could 

 find a passage. What was easiest for them then was of course 

 the best for them. 



Now it is different. The farmer of today who is using 

 scientific means to gain his end is working on a scientific basis. 

 In fact, the man today who does not use scientific methods is 

 a failure. Man is not what his business may be. The interest 

 that you men manifest in your school marks you as men that 

 are paving the way that will insure success to you and your 

 posterity. The men who are making a success today are men 

 who are specializing in the chosen vocation. 



I know of no class of men that require as wide a range of 



