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OF THE 



TENTH ANNUAL MEETING 



OF THE 



ILLFNOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION, 



HEI.B AT 



Haish's Opera House, DeKalb, III., on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Decem- 

 ber 12, 13 and 14, 1888. 



The Association was called to order at 1:30 P. M., Wednesday, Dec. 12, 

 Hon. I. y. Randall, of DeKalb, in the chair. 



ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 



BY REY. H. T. CLENDENNING, OF DE KALB. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Dairymeri's Association of the 

 State of Illinois: In behalf of the citizens of DeKalb and vicinity, it is my 

 privilege to speak to you a few words of welcome. I rejoice in the privilege, 

 yet enter upon it with some degree of hesitancy, for it is not always an easy 

 thing to give expression to one's thoughts and feelings ; and it is no more 

 easy to give expression to the thoughts and feelings of others. And I am 

 here to-day not simply to represent myself, but to represent the citizens of 

 the town and vicinity. And yet, I want to assure you, Mr. Chairman, and 

 members of this body, that if I shall fail to make you feel that we appreciate 

 your gathering here in our town as an honor, and that we most cordially 

 welcome you, I shall fail to do what I have been appointed to do, what I am 

 expected to do, and what 1 have it in my heart to do. 



It may seem a little strange to some of you that a Methodist preacher 

 should have been called upon to speak words of welcome to a dairymen's 

 association. If you were an association met together for the purpose of de- 

 liberating upon the methods of improving and multiplying choice chickens, 

 why, of course, the appropriateness of the selection would be apparent at 

 once ; and yet, allow me to say, gentlemen and ladies, that if it be true that 

 the profession to which I belong have the reputation of having an extreme 

 appreciation of chickens, they will vie with any other class of men in their 

 appreciation of good butter and choice cheese. 



