ILLINOIS 
FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING, 
Held at Elgin, Ills., December io, ii, and 12, 1878. 
Elgin, Dec. io, 1878,) 
2 o’clock a. m. / 
Convention called to order at 2 p. m., with President 
Teffp in the chair; when after some preliminary remarks, 
relative to the dairy interests, the president read the fol¬ 
lowing address: 
DR. TEFFT’S ADDRESS. 
Fellow Citizens, Dairymen of Illinois Universal custom 
has made it incumbent upon the presiding officer of gatherings like 
this to deliver an opening address, regardless of his opinion or quali¬ 
fication to meet such an emergency. 
Then, to add to our embarrassment on this occasion, the execu¬ 
tive committee of this association have gone on and parceled out to 
gentlemen the available topics for discussion from which a well- 
directed talk could be made, and left for us the only chance to direct 
oui thoughts between wind and water, without the libertv of touching 
either. 
You will please permit us to say that we are happy to meet you 
here to-day on this occasion, and in behalf of the dairymen of this 
vicinity you will please allow us to extend to you, one and all, a hearty 
