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sequently the vote was made unanimous that the next 
Convention be held at Elgin. 
On motion the Convention now adjourned to meet at 
Mendelssohn Hall at 8 o’clock, to listen to an address from 
T)r. John M. Gregory, of the Industrial University, Cham¬ 
paign, Illinois, and Gen. L. B. Parsons, Flora, Illinois, 
President Ohio & M.R.R. Co. 
EVENING SESSION. 
Mendelssohn Hall, Wednesday, 8 p. m. 
Convention called to order as per adjournment, where¬ 
upon Gen. L.B. Parsons, delivered the following address, 
his subject being u Transportation and its kindred con¬ 
nections.” 
L. B. PARSON’S PAPER. 
“ Transportation: its merits, importance, and future, as connected with 
production and exchange.” 
Gentlemen : This, as I understand, is a meeting of gentlemen con¬ 
nected with the dairy interest, the promotion of which has become a matter 
of great public as well as private importance, a branch of production of 
rapidly increasing magnitude, and which has in a brief period of time, 
extended from the partial occupation of a few counties in the Eastern States 
till it engages the attention of large sections of the West; resulting already, 
not only in supplying home consumption, and preventing a drain upon our 
resources to pay for importations; but in adding the large sum of fifteen to 
seventeen millions of dollars annually, to swell the aggregate of our foreign 
commerce and restore health and wealth to the nation’s finances. Not only 
do the great interests already involved, demand all proper attention and 
encouragement, but with these we may reasonably expect an almost unlim¬ 
ited increase in the near future, of a production which not only adds so 
largely to the happiness of the human family, but to our national wealth. 
In the southern part of the state, where I reside, though a land of 
corn and grass, yet we have hitherto given so little attention to dairy pro- 
