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Carried unanimously. 



Q: — How will you proceed with the election. 



Mr. Nowlan: — It has been customary for the* Secretary to cast the 

 vote. 



It is moved and seconded that the Secretary cast the vote of the con- 

 vention for the names mentioned lr the report. All in favor say "I." 



Contrary, none. Carried unanimously. 



By the President: — There is due to you a vote of thanks for continu- 

 ing the old officers. 



SItOS AND E.NSILAGE, 



E. N. COBB, MONM OUTH, ILLINOIS. 



Mr. President and Members of the Association: — I am very glad to 

 have learned since I have been here and observed as well, that this has 

 been a splendid meeting. I have been told it is one of the best meetings 

 held in several years. I am especially glad, because I have not been pres- 

 ent the past two years. I probably have massed a great deal. 



While I am enjoying myself at this meeting, seeing old friends and 

 making new ones, I, perhaps, am as care-free of what is going on at 

 home concerning business affairs as any person that has attended this 

 meeting. I am positive to a certainty that there are no gates left open, 

 no door left open where they should not be; that the 80 head of Jerseys 

 we have, that every one of them has been cared for properly; I know 

 the hired men have not forgotten to note the temperature of the barn 

 in the morning and at noon and at night; I know they have not forgot- 

 ten to look to the ventilation, and that the water supply in our 100 barrel 

 system that is fed from a deep well and windmill, that that temperature 

 has been regulated by a steam pipe to fit the climatic conditions; I am 

 positive that every cow has been fed according to her capacity to yield 



