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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Association help this movement along by the adoption of a resolution 

 asking the next legislature of Illinois for an appropriation for a depart- 

 ment of domestic science in the University of Illinois. Of all the foods 

 that are used to sustain and develop the human race, there are none so 

 valuable and none that require so much skill in their use, to keep them 

 pure and wholesome and unadulterated, as the products of the dairy, ^t 

 is eminently proper therefore, that the dairymen should foster and sustain 

 this infant in the educational woiid, domestic science, which will as it 

 ■grows, become more and more allied V\ith the dairy interests. 



Music, duet by Mr. and Mrs. Ritchie, "Greetings." Responded to an 

 encore. 



Rddress 



PROF. N. W. MCLAIN, CHICAGO. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: I did not know that I was to 

 "be on the program untile after it was printed, and' I have not had' the op- 

 portunity to make such preparation as I would like to have made for the 

 benefit of this Association. Your Secretary told me he thought he could 

 -call on me at the last moment an d I would be ready to respond, and I am 

 always ready to contribute what I can to the advancement of the in- 

 terests represented by. this Association. 



Many of the thoughts which I shall read to you here have been 

 -gathered in this convention, whi le I have been engaged in drinking the 

 five cups of tea that were told' about this afternoon. 



The subject I have in this address' I have called "Essentials to Future 

 Development." 



A distinguished American statesman and patriot once said: "The 

 only lamp, by which my feet are guided is the lamp of experience." 



