2I 6 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



devoted to dairy interests, no one would be able to do it more genially 

 than the President of the Illinois Dairymen's Association, and I hand the 

 gavel over to him. Allow me to introduce Mr. Joseph Newman. 

 ladies and Gentlemen: 



Of course we had a little disagreement about this gavel business, but I 

 Jiad to bow to higher authority. The dairymen are inclined to be intelli- 

 gent people, and we believe they are among the best of the agricultural 

 producers of this State and the Noithwest. 



We like to stand shoulder to shoulder with all the different matters 

 pertaining to the garm, and always willing to do our part. We believe 

 in deliberations of this kind. We want what is right and what is best and 

 good for all. 



To fill out the program thi& morning I have arranged with Mr. A. J. 

 Glover, who is doing field work, and goes once in every seven weeks to 

 the different farms and tests the cows and keeps records for a whole year 

 and knows the practical results, whei her they are keeping paying dairy 

 cows or not. 



Allow me to introduce Mr. A. J. Glover. 



ADDRESS 



BY MR. A. J. GLOVER, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: 



After you have heard what you have in regard to being disappointed 

 in prominent men, it makes me feci something like the darkey who went 

 fishing. He went a fishing, so the story goes, down South and caught a 

 nice bass. He puts this bass on a stringer and it went swimming about 

 in the water and couldn't get away, so the darkey drifted down farther 

 and tried again, but caught no more. During his absence another young 



