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and lay the matter before them, ascertain what they will do, and if it meets 

 the views of all parties, that they may lay out the work for holding a fair, in 

 connection with the fat stock show, where the butter aod cheese of Illinois 

 may be exhibited to all the visitors who come from all over the country to 

 see that fat stock show. Members of the State Board of Agriculture are 

 here, and we would like to hear from them as to how they look on this 

 proposition. 



E. E. Chester, OF THE State Board of Agriculture: Mr. Presi- 

 dent, Ladies and Gentlemen — I hardly need say a word, your Secretary has 

 covered the whole ground so well. The members of the S'ate Board, in their 

 discussions, have, among other thin'is, looked at the geography of the State. 

 They have looked at the three belts of ihe State, and we, in our discussions 

 and conversations have been asking ourselves if we had done our duty as 

 representatives of the peop e in this State Board of Agriculture, towards 

 each and all of these districts— the wheat, the corn, and the dairy districts ? 

 We think that for the central or corn growing part of the State, iu the fat 

 stock show, we have developed at least great things. We think that possibly 

 we have not done our duty to this great interest— the dairy interest, and, 

 while I am not authorized by the Board, officially, to say we are prepared to 

 meet you, yet, from these conversations and discussions, as I have been 

 asked to appear before you, I can just say this, and simply this, that I assure 

 you that the State Board is ready to co-operate with this association in any 

 interest that will further the interests of the State of Illinois. That we will 

 not only look upon it as a privilege to confer with your delegates at our win- 

 ter meetiny: in January, but we are also further wil ing, I assure you, to co- 

 operate with you in an annual exhibition, either at our S ate fair or at the 

 fat stock show. We are re<dy to co operate wi h you at one or both of 

 these, our great exhibits of Illinois. At present, I believe I have nothing 

 more to say, but to give you assurance that we are ready and willing to greet 

 you and to co-operate with you, and will be glad to meet your delegates and 

 confer with you here or at Springfield. 



ACTION OF STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Besolved, That space be granted the Illinois Dairymen's Association for 

 an exhibition of dairy products in the exposition building during the con- 

 tinuance of the next fat stock show; provided, that no expense is incurred 

 thereby to the Illinois Sta'e Board of Agriculture, and that the Illinois 

 Dairymen's Association be requested to hold such exhibition. 



Besolved, That a committee of three members of this Bonrd be appointed 

 to confer with the officers of the Illinois Dairymen's Association, in refer- 

 ence to this matter, and arranging the details. 



The committee appointed to confer with your association in arranging 

 details consists of Messrs. Griffith, David and Chester. 

 January 1st, 1884. 



Committee on by-laws appointed by the president: J. G. Lumbard, S. S. 

 Pembleton, J. H. Broomell. 



Committee on nominations: F. H. Hall, L. M. Potter, C. W. Gould. 



The following resolution was offered by Mr. Broomell : 



Besolved, That the Association of the Illinois Dairymen's Association 



