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milk, raising the right sort of cows for that purpose, and taking 

 care of them through the summer and winter season, is well cal- 

 culated to help my limited knowledge upon the subject. 



Please express to the officers and directors of this associa- 

 tion, my regrets and excuses for not being able to be with them. 

 Yours respectfully, . R. J. Oglesby. 



The appointment of committees was announced as follows: 



Nominations— -W '. H. Hintze, L. M. Potter, C. F. Tenney. 



Oleomargarine — Hon. John Stewart, H. B. Gurler, R. 

 Lespinasse, D. W. Little, John Warne. 



Implements— E. E. Garfield, T. H. Baker, A. M. Todson. 



Resolutions — Jules Lumbard, D. W. Wilson, John Boyd, N. 

 E. Dillie, J. H. Momard. 



Cream—]. Y. Sawyer, Jr., E. E. Chester, J. B. Bertolet. 



The Secretary: 



Ladies and Gentlemen — The nineteenth century is a marked 

 period of strong individualities and specific specialties. It is an 

 age of action and progress, and also a time of thought. It is an 

 age in which the practical application of study and intelligence 

 to the daily avocations of men and women is recognized as an 

 absolute necessity to success and perfect, happy homes. 



In the struggle towards the goals of perfection and the sum- 

 mit of sometimes unrealized ambition, many things have arisen 

 to either cheer us or pull us down on the way. Among the 

 strongest pillars of the temple and the most powerful to incite 

 the men and women of the farm to more earnest and intelligent 

 deeds, have stood and stand to-day the agricultural and dairy 

 newspapers of the United States, under the direction of ener- 

 getic, practical and enterprising men, who have taken much 

 pride in their work and ofttimes derived more glory than shekels 

 for their incessant efforts, midnight studies and words of wisdom. 



The divine promise that the harvest shall not fail, stands 

 good as in primeval times, but the effect of an intelligent and 

 timely sowing, the effect of a sensible application of wondrous 



