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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
become honorary members of fhe Association. 
W. W. Bingham moved that Mrs. J. M. Frink, Mrs. 
Sheldon and Mrs. F. G. Hacldey be added to finance 
committee. 
THE PAST AND FUTURE OF THE ELGIN BOARD 
OF TRADE. 
BY R. P. MCGLINCY, SECRETARY. 
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen :—A year ago 
was accorded to me the honor of preparing a paper on 
“ The Acts and Doings of the Elgin Board of Trade,” 
in which I gave the figures in gross of all the transactions 
which had occurred since the organization of the Board in 
1872, and of the transactions of the year 1879, in detail. 
Then I tried to give all of importance or of interest to the 
general public, so that in this article it will not be neces¬ 
sary to go into details of the past as elaborately as was 
done then ; still a brief reference to the past history of the 
Board may not be out of place here, as so many of the 
members of the Association are, or ought to be, interested 
in the welfare of the Board of Trifle, for, with many others, 
I feel that the Board should interest not only the producers 
of milk, and the manufacturers of butter and cheese, but 
every one who consumes an ounce of these products, for it 
was organized to benefit all of these classes, and so long as 
it is conducted for the benefit of thafce several classes they 
should manifest a lively interest in its transactions. 
Away back in the history of dairying in Northern 
Illinois—so long ago that few of us remember the evils that 
befell the business, and which 'caused the pioneers of the 
industry great alarm, because of the unexampled wicked¬ 
ness of the men who were then engaged in the commission 
business in Chicago and other dependent cities,—the Elgin 
Board of Trade was organized, as a sort of mutual protec¬ 
tion society—that is, where the manufacturers could find 
protection against the grasping commission men, and where 
the latter might obtain protection from the skimmers of the 
