28o ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Greenville, I wish to return our thanks to this Association for 

 holding their meeting here. I think it has been very profitable 

 to our community, and we invite you back here as often as you 

 will come. I assure you the dairymen here knowing now what 

 a State Dairymen's Association means, and knowing the progra-m, 

 we would have to have a hall three times as large as this to hold 

 the number of men who would be in attendance. We appreciate 

 very much your coming here, and on behalf of the citizens I ex- 

 tend a hearty invitation to return whenever you please. 



Q : — Wouldn't it be profitable for the milk men of Bond 

 County to have a County Farmer's Association? We ought to 

 talk about it now. 



By the President : — I would throw out a suggestion. When 

 you hold your County Farmers' Institute take that matter up. 

 I don't know whether all these gentlemen here all come from Bond 

 County. Organization is a grand thing for a body, whether agri- 

 cultural or anything else. It would be good to have a good 

 strong township organization, then a few county organizations 

 around you and form that into the state association. We could 

 become a bond that no one could break through. I think your 

 suggestion a good one. You ought to take it up and carry it 

 forward. 



Mr. Lindley: — Last year w^e had two or three meetings. 

 They were very good and very beneficial and it was suggested 

 that this year we proceed along the same lines of instruction, and 

 when we found that this meeting was coming here and men were 

 coming from the university and from different states and were 

 going to talk upon these same questions, it was talked over and 

 several thought it over and decided it would not be necessary to 

 hold the meetings because each one cost some money, and my 

 experience was that the last two we had, I footed most of the 

 bill myself for the speakers who came here, but that is all right. 

 We could hold out meetings, but it seems to me that everything 

 has been covered at this convention. They are expensive. We 

 ought to hold them every year, but this meeting has taken the 

 place of them. I think as far as an organization is concerned it 



