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have responded to the address of welcome, the president 
called on Mr. Charles Baltz, of Chicago, who spoke as fol¬ 
lows : 
MR. BALTZ’S RESPONSE. 
Mr. President and Ladies and Gentlemen of Marengo: 
Allow me in behalf of the dairymen here assembled, to 
t lank you for the very kind welcome just tendered us We 
have left our places of business, our shops and our farms 
to come here and discuss with you questions of mutual 
intei est in this our annual convention. And I hope that 
our coming here will not be in vain ; that this convention 
will be a grand success, as its predecessors have been; that 
the discussion of these various questions pertaining to the 
damy interests of our state, will result beneficially to each 
°? u ly Way ou , t . here from Chicago to-day, riding 
through the country lying between here and that city I was 
strongly impressed with the thought that if this section of 
the country was properly developed it might yet be the 
greatest dairy country of the world. 
I hope each one of us will do his best to make this an 
interesting and beneficial gathering. We can do so if we 
!7m 1 M d iA ^ G l tho V^ ht of bein £ called upon to respond 
t Mr. McD. Richards address of welcome, when I came 
in, consequently I hope you will overlook any errors I may 
have made in my few rambling remarks. 
The president, Dr. Tefift, then read the following ad- 
dress: 
DR. TEFFT’S ADDRESS. 
. FcHvw Citizens y Ladies , Gentlemen and Dairymen of Illi¬ 
nois . In accordance with a general custom which was 
early adopted and has been carried out from year to year 
at our annual meetings, it devolves upon me at this the 
sixth anniversary of the Illinois Dairymen’s Association, to 
present to you a partial resume of our operations during 
the past year. The manner and purpose of our organiza- 
i°n, t le many advantages and happy influences arising 
h-om and extended by this and similar associations, and the 
progi ess made in the different departments of dairying 
