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the city to permit you to butter both sides of all the bread 

 you may eat during your brief sojourn with us. One kind of 

 milk I am sure you will find in ample quantities, whether 

 you stop at our hotels or our homes is the milk of human kind- 

 ness. I trust that you will learn that the citizens of Mt. Carroll 

 are not oblivious to progressive movements, and that you will 

 be satisfied with the encouragement they shall give you, and 

 with the hospitality they may manifest, as they feel fully rewarded 

 and highly compensated by your visit for all they may do 

 towards making this convention a success. 



Let me say again that you are heartily welcome, and that 

 we anticipate both a pleasant and profitable time while you 

 remain with us. We hope that you may continue in the grand 

 work for which you have organized, and that you may advance 

 with unfaltering success. The best wishes of our people are 

 with you. 



RESPONSE. 



Secretary R. Lespinasse: 



Mr. Hoffman— You have said welcome, welcome to the 

 dairymen of Illinois, and these words are like an echo of that 

 kingly welcome in deeds which the entire population of your 

 pleasant city has taken special pleasure in extending to every 

 visiting member of this association. 



And now, my friends, with you who are proving such hos- 

 pitable and amiable hosts and hostesses, we hope the estimate you 

 have placed upon your guests will not prove disappointing, and 

 the coming of the Iillinois dairymen to your town may serve your 

 residents with cause for congratulation. 



Under the present circumstances may it not be allowable to 

 present the guests to the host, that they may become more inti- 

 mately acquainted with each other. 



In the natural course of affairs the energetic and intelligent 

 man whose occupation brings him constantly in contact with the 

 wonderful and powerful main-springs of animated nature can- 

 not fail to become imbued, with a keen faculty of observation to 



