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Our cheese product of the IlTorthwest finds a ready market in Europe as well 

 as in New York or San Francisco. No matter where we offer these products, 

 we can and do st-11 them, because they have been made by men who have 

 devoted years of study and years of patient labor and toil to perfect them- 

 selves, and put themselves in a position where they can command the highest 

 possible prices. And, in addition to all this, we have another industry— an 

 adjunct to the dairy business, which is bringing us a world-wide reputation— 

 the industry of condensing milk, originally started in the east, but gradually 

 reached the west, and now finds a permanent home at Elgin, that modest 

 little town, which I represent. And that product finds a market, not only 

 in the United States, or wherever the American flag floats, but wherever the 

 English language is spoken, condensed milk is used, adding another item of 

 profit to the dairy. 



I have already intimated to you that the man w^ho was a sluggard, and 

 careless in his habits, could not succeed as a dairy farmer or as the manu- 

 facturer of gilt edged butter and cheese. I remember a remark dropped in 

 my presence by the president, calling attention to the fact that certain things 

 are not permissible in the factory or creamery ; and as he has referred to 

 that very plainly, I will not touch upon it, but leave it for him ; and let me 

 say that whatever he may say on that point, comes from the earnest conviction 

 that he is eodeavoring to impress an idea upon the audience and upon the 

 people of the State, that will be benpfic ai to them in future. 



Now, I don't know as I ought to occupy the time of this Association any 

 further, in response to the words of welcome that have been extended to us. 

 But I think I c n say for every one of the strangers present, that if there is 

 anything in DeKalb that we tail to get, it will be *)ur own ault, because we 

 have been assured that everything is at our disposal ; and I know— at least 

 I think I know— that there are some here who will avail themselves of the 

 opportunity to become acquainted with the citizens of this pleasant locality, 

 so I hat if they should ever, in the journey through life, stop here they would 

 have friends to call upon. 



Now sir, in conclusion, I thank you on behalf of this Association for 

 these words of welcome. 



ANNUAL ADDKESS OF THE PRESIDENT. 



DR. JOSEPH TEFFT. 



Ladies and Gentlemen: You will please allow me, on this tenth annual 

 meeting of this Association, to congratulate you upon the favorable circum- 

 stances under which we have assembled this afternoon. 



The year now about^ closing has been, financially, a prosperous one for the 

 dairymen of our state. The early part of the present season was variable 

 with heat, cold, and rain, the rain fdlliDg in such profusion as to seriously 

 interfere in many parts of the state with the early planting of the maize, a 

 cereal, much used by the dairymen to keep up the fire of life and buoyancy 

 of the cow of his dairy during the long, cold winter of this latitude, usually 

 expected about this season of the year. "^ 



While the corn suffered in early spring by cold and dampness of soil, and 

 in the fall by early frosts, the grasses have received abundance of the rich 



