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there and adopted that we organize and we concluded to call it 

 the American Farmers' Association. That Association was un- 

 lucky enough to have a poor president, I am the poor fellow. I 

 did not want you to cheer, I did not want you to agree with me. 

 However, that cannot be helped now for one year. We con- 

 cluded to have for our Directors prominent dairymen such as 

 Mr. Frazier and Mr. Hills scattered all over the United States. 

 We also concluded to ask the President of every Dairy Associa- 

 tion in the United States and Canada to appoint ten delegates 

 that will be present at the next dairy show. 



I spoke in Vermont a short time ago and they appointed 

 representatives there. At St. Louis last week they appointed 

 theirs. I was in New Hampshire last week and they promised to 

 appoint their delegates, and I am sure my good friend Mr. 

 Wiggins will co-operate with us and appoint ten delegates to 

 meet with us. I would like to talk longer on this subject but I 

 must not. 



I am to talk about Dairying for Profit. Now I suppose 

 there are a lot of fellows who like dairying so well that they keep 

 cows and milk them just because they love the business. I like 

 cows, but it always occurred to me that there was always just as 

 much fun in caring for those that paid a profit. I am fortunate 

 this afternoon in having the gentlemen who have preceded me 

 give you good talks along that line. 



Then another thing, I have been to your Associations for 

 four years and I have felt I ought not to say the same thing, so I 

 have been looking over last year's report to see what I said to 

 you at that time. I remember the President was not there, the 

 Vice-President was in the chair and he turned me loose for the 

 whole afternoon, so I am a little handicapped not to repeat what 

 I said last year or to talk too much on the same line as these gen- 

 tlemen who preceded me. 



I take it for granted that every man that is putting in his 

 time wants to get as much as he possibly can out of it. We are 

 setting aside a part of our time, which is a part of our life in this 

 great struggle to surround ourselves and our families with the 

 better things of life, to educate our children and to provide for 



