16 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



President : I see that I am down on this program for an 

 address but it will be very brief as we have two such good 

 numbers ahead of me on the program. 



We open our thirty-eighth annual meeting with the ex- 

 pectation of having this the most successful meeting in the his- 

 tory of the Association. 



It has been six years since we met here and I will say that 

 the farmers here have made marked progress since then in the 

 developing of the dairy industry here. We, that attended that 

 meeting then, while many with us on that occasion are not with 

 us today, we well remember the cordial hospitality and good 

 cheer on all sides. 



I think I can safely say that no locality has developed 

 faster than this Effingham County. You have your Count}- 

 Dairymen's Association holding meetings from time to time for 

 discussing the phases that go with the dairy business which can- 

 not but be beneficial to all concerned, and the only County in 

 the State, to my knowledge, having an association of this kind. 



I enjoyed the privilege of attending one of your meetings 

 on the first of last April, and it was one of the most enthusiastic 

 meetings I ever attended. You also have your County Holstein 

 Breeders' Association, and I understand there are fifty breeders 

 of pure bred cattle in the country, and you fully appreciate the 

 value of breeding and keeping good dairy stock for economical 

 milk production. 



You have also 7,000 dairy cows, in the county, and over 

 five hundred silos have been built since then. The three im- 

 portant factors in profitable dairying, good breeding that pro- 

 duces the type and quality, that produces the largest yield for 

 a given amount of feed. Growing the feed that is adapted to 

 milk production, and last but not least is the care. Comfort 

 and kindness is the asset that pays the largest return of profit 

 for the cost. 



This Association has for its object one purpose solely — edu- 

 cational, uplifting and the improvement of dairy conditions in 

 general throughout the State. 



We approve of the work being done at our Agricultural 



