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ADDRESS 
BY STEPHEN FAVILL, LAKE MILLS, PRESIDENT NORTHWESTERN DAIRYMEN’S 
ASSOCIATION. 
At the Seventh Annual Meeting, Whitewater, January 21,1873. 
Gentlemen of the Convention: • 
I come to you to-night with words of congratulation and good 
cheer. The favorable auspices under which we meet augurs well 
for the success of the convention. The welcome we have received 
to the hospitalities of the city, and the invitation of the citizens to 
share their homes with them during our stay among them, clearly 
proves that nothing will be lacking on their part to make our 
meeting one of both pleasure and profit. 
And not only this, but the circumstances are favorable in other 
respects. The past season has been one which, in the main, has 
been favorable to the interest we represent. The early and the 
latter rain promised have been ours. Feed for our herds, for 
both summer and winter, has been and is abundant. The condi¬ 
tion of the atmosphere has been favorable for the manufacture 
and handling of dairy goods, and, best of all, prices for dairy pro¬ 
ducts have been such as to stamp the season as one of profit to the 
careful dairyman. 
The improvement in our market has been highly gratifying. 
This improvement has been brought about in part by the im¬ 
proved quality of our goods. And again, we have extended our 
markets; we have opened communication with the outside world 
with gratifying results. The experiments in sending cheese to 
New York and to London have been very satisfactory. The 
prices obtained for our goods in these markets have satisfied us 
that with proper attention to the quality of cheese wanted in these 
markets, they may still be made useful to us. The reports from 
the dairy boards of trade of Illinois and Wisconsin which are to 
be made to the convention will show this matter up more fully. 
I desire briefly to review the history of the dairy interest in the 
