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ciation presents as fine a looking tody of men as you will find anywhere. 

 It seems to me as if a committee had teen appointed throughout the State 

 and brought together the best looking men and ladies that could be found'. 



Now we are a very peculiar people, very particular as to whom we ex- 

 tend the hand. We appreciate this organization not because we realize 

 that it is not only a benefit to the people throughout the State; for the 

 products it puts on the market, wh ch are the very best that can be had. 



We trust that your meeting here an ong us will be pleasant and profit- 

 able to you as no doubt it will be to us. 



Now Mr. Chairman, I wish to pref-ent to you this little key and with it 

 the freedom of our city. You have tha freedom to our homes and our 

 hearts and to our city, and may this Afs-ociation always consider that they 

 are welcome to this grand old City of Champaign, that it is always open to 

 the members of the Illinois Dairymen's Association. 



By the President: I thank you. I will place the key here where you 

 can all have it, and go where we want to, and you may know that you are 

 perfectly safe in giving this key to us 



RESPONSE. 



Mr. C. H. Giirler, of DeKalb. 



Mr Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



In behalf of the Members of the Illinois Dairymen's Association 

 I thank the representative of the Mayor of Champaign and the Mayor of 

 Urbana for the kind words so eloquently spoken. 



It is a pleasure for this Association to know that they are welcome to 

 this University building and to the C.ties of Champaign and Urbana. 

 When I first learned that the Association had accepted the invitation to hold 

 this 29th annual meeting in this building I was pleased. It was an assur- 



