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today that I spent more time in those stables than in looking over all the 

 rest of that great show. Some said I was a fool, and it was true, but I 

 staid there just the same. I took my camp stool and would sit down by 

 some cow that I thought was almost perfection. There was that one, 

 Brown Bessie, and I studied her over and looked her over and over, and 

 then after spending several hours in the different stables I would think 

 it was my duty to see something else and then go. I started several times 

 to go to the north end of that park, but I never got there but once and 

 then only for a little while. Those cows would pull me right back. I 

 had a sight I never shall see again. There was a cow that was better 

 than all the rest. So we called her the Worlds Champion, Brown Bessie. 



(Interrupted to allow the Committee on resolutions; to report.) 



Mr. M. H. Thompson, Chairman of Committee on resolutions reports 

 as follows: 



Mr. President: We were appointed only just before your adjourn- 

 ment this morning and have not had time to prepare a complete report, 

 but have agreed upon a report to Washington. 



"Whereas, The bill recently passed by the lower house of Congress, 

 known as the Grout Bill, and now pending in the Senate, is of vital in- 

 terest to the dairymen of the northwest, especially to dairymen of Illi- 

 nois; therefore, 



"Resolved, That the Illinois State Dairy Association, now assembled 

 in annual session, earnestly request our representatives in the Upper 

 House of Congress to use every honorable effort in their power to the 

 end that the bill, as passed by ib 8 Lower House, pass the Senate and 

 become a law." 



Moved and seconded that the resolution be adopted. 



Carried unanimously. 



I think I got to that interesting point where I was studying Brown 

 Bessie. I will tell you how I studied her. I would look at her for some 

 minutes, and then shut my eyes to see if I could see her. I practiced that 

 when I was learning Sunday school lessons, and it came in good that 

 time. Then I would open my eyes and look at her again, and then shut. 



