22 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



...PROCEEDINGS... 



OF the: 



TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING 



OF THE 



Illinois State Dairymen^s Association 



HELD AT 



DeKolb, Illinois, February 24, 25, 26, 1897* 



[Stenogrophic Report by Mrs. R» Howard Kelly, Chicago.] 



In the absence of the President, George W. Gurler, on 

 account of illness, on motion of Mr. Soverhill, duly seconded, 

 ex-President H. B. Gurler, of De Kalb, was elected Chairman, 

 to preside over the session of this meeting. 



PEAYER. 



REV. A. W. FULLER. 



Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, we thank thee for 

 this day, for this another day from three from whom cometh 

 every good and perfect gift; for the light that shines upon 

 the earth; for the possession of bodily and mental powers; 

 for the life that is around us with all its beauties. We praise 

 thee, O Lord, for the manifestations of thy power in the 

 heavens and in the earth, and in all that in them is, and that 

 they mercy is over all thy works, touching our lives at all 

 points. We make acknowledgment, O Lord, that in thee we 

 live and move and have our being; thou hast made our hands, 

 our eyes and all that we possess, and thou hast prepared for 

 our hands labor and fields and homes and streets and fac- 

 tories; thou hast provided all these things in thy love and 



