14 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



REPLY TO MAYOR DAMON 



John Lynch, Olney, III. 



President : We will listen to a response to our address of 

 welcome by Judge Lynch of Olney. 



Judge Lynch : Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : — 

 On behalf of the Illinois State Dairymen's Association I am 

 asked to respond to the address of welcome of the Mayor of 

 Effingham. 



I want to say that I am a product of southern Illinois, a 

 neighbor of Effingham County, living down in Richmond 

 County, and your fellow citizen Mr. Austin and myself induced 

 the other members of the Board to have this meeting at Effing- 

 ham with the hope and promise that we would give them a 

 good meeting. 



Now I do not know whether we misrepresented things or 

 not, may be we did and perhaps this cold weather has come to 

 help us out so that anything that goes wrong we can lay to the 

 cold weather. However, I will take part of the responsibility, 

 as a member of the Board, in having this meeting located here 

 and we have got to stand by it, but I do hope that great good 

 will come from the meeting. 



The great northern part of the State where our President 

 lives, in Kane County, and the surrounding country has been 

 highly developed for many years, but here, down in this part 

 of the country we are just starting. We know very little abou f 

 it and it is pretty hard to get a good many to learn anything 

 about it. 



I will not talk on scientific dairying, nor the kind of cattle 

 we want, but how to take care of them, that is what I will say 

 a few words on. I have observed this fact in everv communitv 



