ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



has been unable to secure a substi ut.-\ I will read what he has written 

 to us: 



"Mr. Geo. Caven, Secretary. 



My Dear Sir: I regret exceedingly my inability to meet with and 

 greet the Association this afternoon. Engagements which I am unable to 

 control make it impossible ior me to be present and I have been nr.able to 

 secure a substitute. 



Will you kindly present my regrets to the Association, as contained 

 in paper herewith, or verbally if you prefer. 



Respectfully, 



Jno. A. Glover, Mayor.*' 



"Trbana, 111., Jan. 6, 1S03. 

 Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Illinois Dairymen's Association: 



It would have given me very great pleasure to have been with you 

 today, and to have taken by the hand f-o many men prominent in this great 

 work of sanitization and betterment of milk and milk products, but engage- 

 ments previously made compel my presence elsewhere. 



From the cradle to old age the human race is absolutely dependent on 

 this product, and upon its purity rests the lives of the hosts innumerable 

 of the young and rising generations. When is considered the delicate ab- 

 sorptive quality of milk and the ordinary manner of its production, assim- 

 ilating poisons of deadly character from every surrounding, the wonder is, 

 not that there is so much sickness, but that there are not universal ills at- 

 tributable to the poisons allowed to aceummulate in this food. 



The difficulties vou have to encounter in your work are great, but 

 your recompense will be in the improved health in the communities accept- 

 ing your better methods. As one having an early and primitive experience 

 in the dairy business, it seems to me I should be allowed to be a member 

 of this Association, for as a boy it was my duty to handle and care for the 

 'horned and burr tailed cow,' and it has always' been an open question in 

 my mind, whether it were better to 'suffer the flings and flirts of an en- 



