ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMENS ASSOCIATION. 
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wherever existing within the territory of the United States. 
The committee appointed to draft resolutions concern- 
ing John Keating s death made their report which was un¬ 
animously adopted. 
Your committee, appointed to draft resolutions of 
respect to the memory of deceased members, begs leave to 
offer the following: 
Whereas, Since our last annual session, an All Wise 
Providence has removed by death from our circle John 
Keating, one of our earnest, practical and energetic mem¬ 
bers, always alive to the interests and needs of the Associa¬ 
tion. Therefore be it 
Resolved , That in the death of Mr. Keating this 
Association looses an earnest and worthy member, and 
while bowing in submission to this will, we deeply feel the 
loss we have sustained. 
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Resolved\ That these resolutions be properly attested 
and forwarded to the family of the deceased and that the 
same be published in the annual report of the Association. 
R. P. McGlincy, 
S. W. Kingsley, 
C. C. Buell, 
Committee. 
BY GEORGE P. LORD. 
“Milk, its Value and Importance as an Article of 
Food.” 
The food question is as old as the human race. What 
to eat, and how to procure it has engaged the attention of 
mankind in all ages and countries. 
_ Probably at no time in human history has the question 
of food assumed greater importance than during the past 
two or three years. 
