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have responded to the address of welcome, the president 

 called on Mr. Charles Baltz, of Chicago^ who spoke as fol- 

 lows : 



MR. BALTZ'S RESPONSE. 



Mr. President, and Ladies and Gentlemen of Marengo : 

 Allow me, in behalf of the dairymen here assembled, to 

 thank you for the very kind welcome just tendered us. We 

 have left our places of business, our shops and our farms, 

 to come here and discuss with you questions of mutual 

 interest in this our annual convention. And I hope that 

 our coming here will not be in vain ; that this convention 

 will be a grand success, as its predecessors have been ; that 

 the discussion of these various questions pertaining to the 

 dairy interests of our state, will result beneficially to each 

 of us. 



On my way out here from Chicago to-day, riding 

 through the country lying between here and that city, I was 

 strongly impressed with the thought that if this section of 

 the country was properly developed it might yet be the 

 greatest dairy country of the world. 



I hope each one of us will do his best to make this an 

 interesting and beneficial gathering. We can do so if we 

 try. I had little thought of being called upon to respond 

 to Mr. McD. Richards' address of welcome, when I came 

 in, consequently I hope you will overlook any errors I may 

 have made in my few rambling remarks. 



The president. Dr. Tefft, then read the following ad- 

 dress : 



DR. TEFFT'S ADDRESS. 



Fellozv Citizens, Ladies, Gentlemen and Dairymen of Illi- 

 nois : In accordance with a general custom which was 

 early adopted and has been carried out from year to year, 

 at our annual meetings, it devolves upon me at this, the 

 sixth anniversary of the lUinois Dairymen's Association, to 

 present to you a partial resume of our operations during 

 the past year. The manner and purpose of our organiza- 

 tion, the many advantages and happy influences arising 

 from and extended by this and similar associations, and the 

 progress made in the different departments of dairying 



