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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
sale and m anagement of dairy products. He said to a few men 
in Elgin belongs the credit of building up the dairy interest 
to its present importance, and establishing the E]gin Board 
of Trade. It was evident that the board system was the only 
true one. To sell the vast amount of cheese produced in the 
Northwest by the old plan occasioned a great loss in shrink¬ 
age, and poor pay, five per cent., at least, was lost in weights. 
The saving by the board plan was of itself a nice dividend 
to patrons. Many attempts had been made to break down 
the Elgin board, but had so far ended in more firmly estab¬ 
lishing it. The only expense to members being two dollars 
per annum, to make this great saving. Mr. McLean here 
gave the following figures as the transactions of the Elgin 
Dairy Board of Trade, since its organization: 
1872. Total sales butter and cheese.$ 81,000 00 
1873. “ boxes cheese, 40,629—1,726,316 lbs ; butter, 62,061 lbs. 219,177 53 
1874. “ “ “ 65,025—2,955,202 “ “ 136,426 “ 368,528 58 
1875. “ “ “ 87,405—3,970,786 u “ 226,175 “ 496,220 04 
1876. “ “ “ 127,356—5,177,730 “ “ 829,267 “ 767,640 68 
From the above figures it will appear that the transactions 
of the board are nearly ten times larger than the first year; 
no other evidence is needed to convince any farmer or dairy¬ 
man in which direction his interest can be best cared for. 
On motion of M. H. Thompson, the members of the press 
present were made honorary members of the Association. 
The report of FI. W. Mead, treasurer, was read, received, 
and filed; it showed $42.25 in the treasury, with no bills to 
pay. 
The special order for 2:30 p. m., the election of officers, was 
now taken up. The chair appointed J. R. McLean and L. H. 
Seward as tellers. 
A ballot was taken for president, which resulted in declar¬ 
ing Dr. Tefft unanimously elected. 
The selection of three vice-presidents was now in order, 
when, on motion, the secretary was instructed to cast the 
entire vote of the Association for Prof. F. H. Hall, Dr. J. 
Woodward, and C. C. Buell, who were declared unanimous¬ 
ly elected. 
