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supposed to hold his scepter without contention, but to-day the 

 little messes of milk from the various farms of the United States 

 turned into dairy products aggregate in value for the year end- 

 ing July 31, 1887, after an unprecedented drouth in the most pro- 

 ductive butter section of the country the enormous sum of 

 $564,965,900. Four times the cotton crop and exceeding the 

 wheat crop over $150,000,000 in value. Who will now gainsay 

 that the cow is queen ? 



The influence of the west on the butter product of the coun- 

 try is better shown by the fact that the sales on the New York 

 market as reported by the exchange show one-half more of 

 western butter than eastern butter. Another significant fact is 

 that the value of the dairy products handled in the year 1887 

 on the New York market amount to $43,000,000 — not much 

 more — if any at all, than the amount handled in our own city of 

 Chicago, in our own glorious state of Illinois for the same 

 period of time. 



In the temple ol memories dear shall we treasure this gra- 

 cious welcome to the end of days. And when called to answer 

 at the mansion above, the formal welcome of St. Peter at the 

 gate of Paradise will only serve to re-awaken the tingling echos 

 of your kind, hospitable and hearty welcome to Mt. Carroll. 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



President Lovejoy Johnson : 



We may with propriety congratulate ourselves upon this 

 auspicious opening of the Fourthteenth Annual Meeting of the 

 Illinois Dairymen's Association. 



The most modest of men relish flattery sometimes. After 

 such a hearty and flattering reception to this beautiful city so 

 eloquently given by your mayor, I trust we may be pardoned 

 if some of us in talking of our calling and the magnitude of it, 

 and how necessary to commerce and the well-being of society 

 an intelligent, educated dairyman is, we should appear like a 

 mutual admiration society. 



