12 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



PRILSIDENT*S ANNUAL ADDKESS. 



G. H. GURLER, DE KALB. 



Ladies and Geneltmen and Members of the Illinois State Dairymen's 

 Association: 



We have assembled in this, the beautiful city of Aurora, to hold the 

 twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Illinois State Dairymen's Associa- 

 tion. 



We meet as it is, in the Fox Riv^er Valley, in the Elgin district, in the 

 lieart of the best dairy country in America. 



You will bear me out in this statement, when I say that the Elgin 

 market price for butter practically rules the price of butter for the 

 United States. 



And were it not for the nutritious grasses and feeds the soil produces, 

 and the most excellent water that abounds in this locality the make of 

 butter in the Elgin district would not be superior to butter made in other 

 sections of this country, and could not control the price as it now does. 



The valuation of the^butter made in Elgin district reaches into the 

 millions yearly. 



The Illinois State Dairymen's Association embraces representatives 

 of all branches of the dairy industry from the breeding and raising of the 

 calf to the making and selling of the butter. 



We have on our program for this meeting the very best talent in the 

 different branches of the industry that this country affords. Men not 

 only of State, but of National reputation. Dairymen in this locality can 

 ill afford to miss this meeting. 



The program has been arranged so as to have the subjects that were 

 thought would most interest the dairymen at the time the dairymen 

 could be present, as far as possible. The officers of this Association un- 



