ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



raged cow's tail,' while endeavoring to cause the milk to flow or in despair 

 to sit on the tail and suffer the consequences. 



Urbana with its population of 7,000 people, the capital of one of the 

 richest agricultural counties of the world, greets you. Her well-paved 

 and beautifully (in summer) shaded stieets are yours. 



Here is located the great Unh ersity with its 3,000 students, the Big 

 Four Division Shops, employing between 400 and 500 men besides 150 

 railroad men in other service. 



With all its advantages, educational, agricultural and mechanical, it 

 is eminently a home city and offers an open field for manufactories and 

 other extensive business interests. 



Gentlemen of the State Dairymen's Association, as Mayor of the City 

 of Urbana, I have the honor of welcoming you most cordially to our City." 



Mayor Muliken, of Champaign, is also unable to be present but has sent 

 us his representative Mr. F. B. Han ill. City Attorney. 



ADDRESS. 



Members of the Illinois Dairymen's Association. In the absence of 

 the Hon. C. J. Muliken, Mayor, I have been delegated to extend to 

 yoT a cordial and hearty welcome to the grand old City of Champaign. 



I assure you that we want you to feel at home in our midst. I had been 

 instructed to completely and deliberately turn the town over to you. We do 

 not want you to feel as if you are strangers in a strange town and among 

 strange people. I have been instructed tc say we want you to feel as if the 

 town was yours. 



AVe are proud of the City of Charpaign, and we are proud of our citi- 

 zens. We believe -hat we are about one of the best cities on earth, and 

 about the best people, and we are proud of the intelligence and 

 morality of the community in which we live. But I must confess that 

 in spite of all these advantages that w? must acknowledge that this Asso- 



