ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 9 
attend these meetings that they may go from here feeling 
that the time spent at the meeting has been pleasantly and 
usefully employed. Again I bid you a cordial welcome to 
our homes. 
At the conclusion of Mr. Patrick’s address, the president 
introduced R. P. McGlincy, of Elgin, who responded on 
behalf of the Association as follows: 
Mr. President, Citizens of Marengo, Gentlemen:— 
On behalf of the Illinois State Dairymen’s Association, I 
accept the hearty, cordial welcome you have extended to 
us, and trust that our sojourn in your beautiful town may 
be to us as pleasant as your welcome is cordial. I fear, 
however, if you knew that you were welcoming this 
Association, with anti-huff, oleomargarine, suine and other 
questionable compounds, which of late have been given 
prominence by those who seem to be determined to make 
something out of nothing, and that too to the injury of 
t e legitimate dairy industry. Rut while we bring these 
things to you, we bring them in a shape wherein we can 
ask your co-operation in stamping them out of existence, 
and unless honest dairy goods can rid the country of these 
palpable frauds the producers of the milk, the manufac¬ 
tures of butter and cheese, and the consumes will suffer 
fiom these frauds. With united action, wise counsels and 
a determination to produce the very best, we may succeed 
in driving out of the markets, anti-huff, which has ruined a 
large number of Western cheese; lard cheese, which must 
ultimately ruin our production ; oleomargarine, and suine, 
which destroy the sale of our genuine creamery butter. 
While we bring these things to your notice rest assured 
that this Association will put its seal of condemnation on 
all such frauds, and asks you, citizens, to aid it in its good 
work. Again we return you our unfeigned thanks for 
you r generous hospitality, and words of good cheer, and 
trust you will have no cause to regret the welcome'you 
have accorded us. 
ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. 
Fellow Citizens, Members of the Illinois Dairy¬ 
men’s Association : — Ladies and gentlemen, we meet here 
