30 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



sale and m anagement of dairy products. He said to a few men 

 in Elgin belongs the credit of building up the dairy interest 

 to its present importance, and establishing the Elgin Board 

 of Trade. It was evident that the board S3'stem was the only 

 true one. To sell the vast amount of cheese produced in the 

 Northwest by the old plan occasioned a great loss in shrink- 

 age, and poor pay; five per cent., at least, was lost in weights. 

 The saving by the board plan was of itself a nice dividend 

 to patrons. Many attempts had been made to break down 

 the Elgin board, but had so far ended in more firmly estab- 

 lishing it. The only expense to members being two dollars 

 per annum, to make this great saving. Mr. McLean here 

 gave the following figures as the transactions of the Elgin 

 Dairy Board of Trade, since its organization; 



1872. Total sales butter and cheese $ 81,000 00 



1873. " boxes cbeese, 40,629— 1,726,316 lbs ; butter, 62,061 lbs. 219,177 53 



1874. " '' "■ 65^02-5—2,955,202 '^ '' 136,426 " 368,528 58 



1875. " " '' 87,405—3,970,786 '' " 226,175 '' 496,220 04 



1876. '' '' " 127,356—5,177,730 '' " 829,267 " 767,640 68 



From the above figures it will appear that the transactions 

 of the board are nearly ten times larger than the first year; 

 no other evidence is needed to convince an}^ farmer or dairy- 

 man in which direction his interest can be best cared for. 



On motion of M. H. Thompson, the members of the press 

 present were made honorary members of the Association. 



The report of H. W. Mead, treasurer, was read, received, 

 and filed ; it showed 142.25 in the treasury, with no bills to 

 pay. 



The special order for 2:30 p. m., the election of officers, was 

 now taken up. The chair appointed J. R. McLean and E. H. 

 Seward as tellers. 



A ballot was taken for president, which resulted in declar- 

 ing Dr. Teeet unanimously elected. 



The selection of three vice-presidents Avas now in order, 

 when, on motion, the secretary was instructed to cast the 

 entire vote of the Association for Prof. F. H. Hall, Dr. J. 

 WooDWAED, and C. G. Buell, who Avere declared unanimous- 

 ly elected. 



