ILLINOIS 



State Dairymen's Association, 



FOURTH ANNUAL MEETING 

 Held at Elgin, III., Deoembee 11th, 12th, and 13th, 1877. 



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Elgin, Dec. 11th, 1877, 



10 o'clock, A. M. 



The fourth annual meeting of the above Association 

 was held at the Court House, in the city of Elgin, pursuant 

 to call. Dr. J. Tefft, president, in the chair. 



After some preliminary business, the organization was 

 perfected and an adjournment taken, to 1 p. m. 



Tuesday, i p. m. 

 Convention met and called to order as per adjourn- 

 ment. Whereupon the president delivered the following 

 address of welcome : 



DR. TEFFT'S ADDRESS. 



Fellow Citizens, Gentlemen of the Illinois Dairymen's 

 Association: — 'Through the kindness of an oyerruling Providence we are 

 permitted to meet here again in convention, after the lapse of a year spent 

 in various pursuits most congenial to our feelings, and, at the same lime, we 

 trnst, in full harmony with our social relations to our fellow man. 



Before entering upon the business of this convention, you will please 



