ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
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EVENING SESSION. 
Tuesday, 7:30 p. m. 
Meeting was called to order at 7:30 o’clock, President 
lefift in the chair. In order to accommodate R. P. Mc- 
Glincy, who wished to leave the next morning, 
Topic No. 11— “The doings and acts of the Elgin 
Board of Trade’’—was taken up. Upon that topic Mr. 
McGlincy read the following paper: 
MR. M’GLINCY’S PAPER. 
My paper on this subject must be largely composed of 
figures, and may therefore prove uninteresting to many ; but 
the figures will have considerable bearing on the “doings” 
of the board, and will show what has been done by it since 
its organization in 1872. 
At a meeting of the Northwestern Dairymen’s Associ¬ 
ation, held in Elgin in January, 1872, I heard J. R. McLean 
and otheis speak of the manner in which dairymen were 
robbed by commission men to whom they consigned their 
cheese and butter. The drift of the speeches was about in 
effect like this : “We send our goods forward on commission, 
and, when we receive accounts of sales, they show that the 
cheese was either off flavor, too hard, or too soft, or they 
had huffed, or leaked badly, or were cracked ; the w T eight 
did not hold out; ‘ they arrived just when the market was 
flat, and no demand for any thing, and, feeling that I must 
realize the best possible figure, I sold them, and inclose you 
check for the amount, less five per cent, commission.’ ” I 
may remark that it was stated the commission was always 
the same, no matter whether the goods were up or down, 
and it was a singular coincidence that goods nearly always 
went down when sold on commission, and up when sold 
direct to the dealer. Those were the days when the dairy¬ 
men produced the milk, the factoryman the cheese, and the 
