68 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



tell this one to illustrate what I am going to say to you. There 

 was clown south in Arkansas an itinerant preacher who traveled 

 through the country. On one of his trips he stopped at a place 

 late Saturday night where there were two mischievous boys; 

 they were always getting into mischief. They heard him talk 

 about the sermon he was going to preach the next day, they 

 found out where his text was and after he went to bed they 

 pasted two leaves together so when he turned his page he would 

 turn two instead of one. So the next morning when he began to 

 read the lesson and got to the bottom of the page and read, 

 ''When Noah was 160 years old he took unto himself a wife and 

 she was" and then he turned two pages and read "60 cubits wide 

 and 140 cubits long, made out of gopher wood and lined inside 

 and out with pitch." He said, I never met with that before in 

 the Bible, but it only goes to show in the language of the Psalm- 

 ist that we are fearfully and wonderfully made. 



President: The judging test of butter will be made today. 

 There is a party from Decatur to take our picture and it 

 will come out in our report. 



Mr. Caven : I want to call your attention to the reports 

 that are here. Anyone who wishes one is welcome to it. 



I want to say that one of our oldest members met with an 

 accident this morning. Mr. Biddulph had a bad fall and he was 

 taken to St. Anthony's Hospital. Dr. Walker thinks he will be 

 out tomorrow. I know all of his friends will be interested to 

 know of his condition. 



I want to speak again of the banquet given by the Effing- 

 ham County Dairy Association to all visitors outside of Effing- 

 ham County. We all appreciate this, but it might happen that 

 some of the visitors will be overlooked unless they make them- 

 selves known. Do not be backward but let Mr. Birdsell know 

 that are a guest here from outside of the County and he will be 

 only too glad to take care of you. 



Mr. Shilling is going to speak here this afternoon. It will 

 be the first number on the program, and Mr. VanPelt will fol- 



