178 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



CARE OF MILK ON THE FARM. 



By J. M. Trueman, of Urbana, III. 



By the President : — I would say that Mr. Trueman is the 

 gentleman who works on the staff of the University, and largely 

 the past year in the city milk supply work of Chicago. Mr. True- 

 man. 



Mr. President: I am very glad to have your patience bei 

 spoken for me. This is the first time I have addressed an Illin- 

 ois audience of farmers, as I have only been in the state since the 

 first of last April. I rather feel it is my introduction to the dairy- 

 men of the state. 



I began making speeches at Farmers' Institutes fifteen years 

 ago in Nova Scotia. Since that time I have attended conventions 

 and farmers' institutes and lived in New York, Pennsylvania and 

 South Dakota. You know that "a rolling stone" don't amounf 

 to much. I must say that the conventions I have attended in 

 other states and the experiences I have had with farmers have 

 always been good. I do want to say to the farmers of Effing- 

 ham county and to the Dairymen's Association of the State of 

 Illinois I have more than enjoyed myself yesterday and today up 

 to the present moment in this convention. The banquet given us 

 last night I assure you I thoroughly enjoyed the good things to 

 eat, and enjoyed more the hearty feeling of good fellowship that 

 prompted the committee to tender us that banquet. (Applause.) 

 We appreciate your generosity, your fellowship and hearty wel- 

 come you have given us, and I think that my work in Illinois is 

 going to be delightful among such delightful people. But I will 

 get to work. 



Rather than go wading around, and not say what I want to, 

 I will have to stick pretty close to the manuscript. After I had 

 written it, it wouldn't fit the name, so I had to make a new name 

 for it, and haev called it "Relation of the Farmer to Better 

 Milk." 



