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have within a year a law equal to that of Kew York, Missouri or little Ver- 

 mont. I feel that every honest citizen, every intelligent farmer in this com- 

 munity, will help us in the efPort to secure a law that will suppress the sale 

 of adulterated food products. 



Now, it is a well known fact that a live cow cannot compete with a dead 

 hog. It is impossible with the large manufacturers and establishments In 

 Chicago turning out tons upon tons of this stuff daily for ten cents a pound 

 —and it does not cost half that much— as against good butter made on the 

 farm or in creameries. Let us look at this matter carefully, and at a proper 

 time in this Convention let us see if we cannot produce satisfactory methods 

 for protecting the dairy interest ; refer this matter to a committee which 

 perhaps can act with the Board of Trade committee, and let us move upon 

 Springfield when the legislature is in session and let us see whether the 

 farmers, dairymen and creamery men of this state can stand up in the legis- 

 lative halls and secure justice for their products as against those who make 

 and sell a counterfeit article. 1 believe there is intelligence enough among 

 our legislators, if they understand this matter, to give us the assistance we 

 desire. 



Dairy farming leads to intelligence and care ; where you find the dairy 

 farm there in that house you will find intelligence. It is a business that 

 requires intelligence ; a man cannot take it up haphazard, he must be regu- 

 lar in his methods, using the best judgment both in the care of his stock and 

 in the manufacture of his products, if he desires to succeed. If we could get 

 rid of this adulterated stuff that is placed upon the markets, we would have 

 no surplus of fine creamery butter. A little care, a little exercise of judg- 

 ment, will give us a good product that will be of immense value in the land^ 



We return the thanks of the Association to your representative from 

 Champaign, for the cordial manner in which we have been received, and we 

 beg to assure you that, as you become acquainted with us, we feel that we 

 will retire to our homes with mutual regards and kind feelings one towards 

 another. I have only been in your place a few hours and yet I see all about 

 me the evidence of this hospitality which has been so generously extended 

 and of which I, at least, propose to accept as much as possible because I be- 

 lieve that if I can mix a little of the hospitality of Champaign county with 

 that of Kane county I shall be the better for it, and you will not be the worse. 

 Thank you. 



ANNUAL ADDEESS OF THE PEESIDENT, 



DK. JOSEPH TEFFT, ELGIN, ILL. 



Members of the Illinois Dairymen^s Association — Ladies and Gentlemen : — 

 It is with much pleasure that I am permitted to meet with you here to-day on 

 this the eleventh annual meeting of the Illinois Dairymen's Association. I 

 trust that at this time and place I may be permitted to congratulate the dai- 

 rymen of the State on their continued prosperity. Prior to 1870 Illinois was 

 only known to the agricultural-commercial world as one of the largest cereal 

 producing states in the Union. This prestige she still has the honor of 

 holding at the present time, and to this she has added within the last decade 



