00 PROCEEDINGS 00 



OF THE 



Twenty=E,ighth Annual Meeting 



OF THE 



Illinois State Dairymen's Association 



Held at Freeport, Illinois, January 7, 8 and 9, 1902 



The Illinois State Dairymen's Association met in annual session in 

 Germania hall at Freeport, January 7th, 1902, at 1:30 o'clock p. m. 

 President Joseph Newman in the chair. 



PRAYER 



REV. MR. C E. DUNN. 



Let us pray. 



God, our gracious, heavenly Father, we invoke Thy blessing on this 

 assembly. Thou art the seat of all that is good, and we ask our Creator 

 to draw' 1 near to us and bless us. Be with them through their several ses- 

 sions, and bless their efforts, both of those who speak and those who 

 isten. 



