ILLINOIS 



State Dairymen's Association, 



FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING, 

 Held at Elgin, Ills.. December to, ii, and 12, 1878. 



Elgin, Dec. 



2 o'clock 



10, 1878,1 



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Convention called to order at 2 p, m., with President 

 Tefft in the chair ; when after some preliminary remarks, 

 relative to the dairy interests, the president read the fol- 

 lowing address : 



DR. TEFFT'S ADDRESS. 



Fellow Citizens, Dairymen of Illinois : — Universal custom 

 has made it incumbent upon the presiding officer of gatherings like 

 this to deliver an opening address, regardless of his opinion or quali- 

 fication to meet such an emergency. 



Then, to add to our embarrassment on this occasion, the execu- 

 tive committee of this association have gone on and parceled out to 

 gentlemen the available topics for discussion from which a well- 

 directed talk could be made, and left for us the only chance to direct 

 our thoughts' between wind and water, without the liberty of touching 

 either. 



You will please permit us to say that we are happy to meet yon 

 here to-day on this occasion, and in behalf of the dairymen of this 

 vicinity you will please allow us to extend to you, one and all, a hearty 



