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ance to me that the meeting would he a successful one, and if it is not a suc- 

 cessful one, it will be no fault of the officers of this University or the 

 citizens of Urbana and Champaign. 



We are holding this meeting in the finest agricultural building in 

 America. The officers, professors -and instructors are the best that money 

 will hire. The machinery and equipments correspond with the building 

 and the surroundings here are not excelled in any country. 



Our Secretary has prepared a fine program. We must receive an un- 

 limited amount of good from coming in contact with the professors and in- 

 structors of this university, the gentlemen who are on the program and 

 the surroundings. 



It is gratifying to know that that the tost of relations exist between 

 this university and the various organizations in the State adapted and de- 

 voted to agriculture. This university receives some of our brightest pupils 

 of the public schools to enlarge "heir minds on the various branches of 

 study, and from year to year go out from this university T he most cul- 

 tured young men and women to brighten our homes throughout the glori- 

 ous State of Illinois. 



We accept your hospitality and the freedom of your cities and this 

 university in the spirit in which it was given. 



We also accept the key to your cities, given us by your represer.Ta- 

 tive who so ably delivered the address of welcome to this Association. 



I trust >our confidence in us by the delivery of this key to this Asso- 

 ciation will not be misplaced. 



I thank you for your hospitality and the freedom you have offered us 

 and also for your kind and hearty welcome. 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlen en, Members of the Illinois Dairy- 

 men's Association: The healthy cendition in which we lind the dairy busi- 



