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fine goods. Butter is sold on its merits in the market, and he 

 who makes the best will be the successful dairyman. 



Yours respectfully, 



D. T. Sharpless. 



PRESENTATION OF SPECIAL PRIZES. 



The Secretary: "Ladies and Gentlemen, Members of the 

 Association: One of the highest privileges which has fallen to 

 my lot during this week, one of the greatest pleasures which I 

 have kept in reserve, was that of presenting in the name of the 

 exhibitors at the American Dairy Show a token of appreciation 

 of the efforts of our young in bringing themselves to the front 

 in this great dairy work. I am here to say to you, and I am 

 proud, and at the same time I believe the dairymen of Illinois 

 will feel proud with me, that the scoring upon the Dairymaids' 

 Class of 1887 is such that it will be a matter of great attention 

 and nicety of details for the dairymaids of the following years to 

 equal it. The score of the first premium of the Dairymaids' 

 Class is a score that many of our best dairymen have been try- 

 ing to attain, and a score that a great many have not attained; 

 and it is so much better and so much an occasion of congratula- 

 tion and encouragement to us that the young ladies who entered 

 in that class are all below the twenties. Mr. Bailey, will you 

 present to your niece, in the name of the Illinois State Dairy- 

 men's Association, this watch, and with it this list of the friends 

 of the Dairy, who present it to her?" 



Mr. Bailey. " I will accept it with many thanks in her be- 

 half." 



The Secretary. " Mr. Hostetter, the people of Mount Car- 

 roll have not been backward in taking a hand in this show of 

 the Illinois State Dairymen's Association, and Messrs. McKen- 

 ney Brothers have offered a set of knives and forks for the best 

 pail of butter made in Carroll county. I am happy to say that 

 it falls to the lot of one of our tried and trusted dairymen, your- 

 self, with a score of ninety-two points." 



