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and with more willingness, than our worthy president. For years he has 

 been active, as the increasing weight of years has given him the ability to be. 

 I wish to offer this motion, that in view of the long continued and efficient 

 services of Dr. Joseph Tefft, he be declared an honorary member of this body 

 for the term of his natural life. 



Motion seconded, and unanimously adopted. 



Prof. Morrow : And now I want on behalf of a few members, as a 

 very slight token of the esteem in which you are held on the part of the As- 

 sociation, to present to you this cane, which I hope you will not need for ten 

 years to come at least, to help your steps, but that you may carry it as an 

 honor. 



Dr. Tefft : I am utterly surprised, gentlemen, that I should be pre- 

 sented with a cane as nice as this ; I receive it with much pleasure and many 

 thanks. I am too highly honored wath the pleasure of being made an hon- 

 orary member of the Association. I have been highly pleased and enter- 

 tained since I came to Champaign ; I have been glad to meet, and see, and 

 get acquainted with so many good folks, so many men that are intelligent. 

 I hope and trust that this may not be our last meeting; I hope we may meet 

 hereafter at some time. I am getting advanced in life; I don't expect to 

 stay here a great many years, but I enjoy working better than sitting down 

 and resting; my life has always been a natural life from boyhood to the 

 present time. I left home at seventeen years old, and since that time to this 

 I have hoed my own way, and I have got along and sustained myself thus 

 far. Now, I will be happy to meet any citizens that I have met here at my 

 own home ; I will entertain them to the best of my ability. I have been 

 very happily entertained since I have been here. I shall go away bearing 

 and retaining in my memory this meeting for all time to come. 



DAIRYING IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS. 



BY H. C. BOUTON, ANNA, ILL, 



In speaking for Southern Illinois, we take for our territory that portion 

 of the State lying south of the Ohio and Missippi Railroad, as this road is 

 generally accepted as the dividing line between Central and Southern 

 Illinois. 



Our dairying interests are decidely of a meagre character, as Southern 

 Illinois farmers have given most of their attention to grain, stock, fruit and 

 vegetable growing. Draw a line east and west from Carbondale, on the Ill- 

 inois Central Railroad, to the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and that portion 

 south of the line will include the spur of the Ozark Mountains which extends 

 from river to river across this portion of the State. Here is what is known 

 as the great fruit and vegetable garden of our great State, one station alone 

 last year shipping over 600 car loads of these products. 



The soil of this section of Illinois is exactly the same as that of the fam- 

 ous blue-grass region of Kentucky, and the numerous ever-living springs of 

 sparkling water which gush from the hillsides, give an abundant supply of 

 what is so necessary in dairying, both for the cows and for butter making- 

 pure water. 



Our very short winters generally enable Southern Illinois dairymen to 

 pasture their cows until Christmas. 



