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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Mrs. Woolen: If in order, I should like to move that Dr. Hurty of 

 this city explain the pure food laws to this meeting, and tell us why 

 they are not enforced in the State of Indiana. I am told that Mr. 

 Hurty can be here at any time after 11:00. I should lilie to make this 

 a motion, that Dr. Hurtj^ talk to us on the pure food laws, and tell us 

 why they are not enforced here. 



Prof. Van Norman: It seems to me we ought to finish the other subject 

 first. 



Mr. Drischel: I think this niatter should be urged upon every member 

 of the Association. We should impress the farmers by having it in the 

 local papers, and I am quite sure it would have some effect. I should 

 like every farmer to send his Representative a postal card within the 

 next 10 days, telling just what he wants. 



Mr. Knox: I would suggest that a strong resolution be passed at this 

 meeting. I also suggest that the committee on resolutions make a strong 

 resolution and bring it before this meeting, and let it be passed by a 

 unanimous vote, urging the Representatives to act favorably in regard 

 to this matter, and then have it put in every paper— in every horti- 

 cultural and agricultural paper, and the papers at all the county seats, 

 and especially the dairy papers. 



Prof. Van Norman: Tlie experiment station stands ready to do any 

 work in the way of agiMcultural investigation for which funds are pro- 

 vided. They have no funds to do anything more than they are doing, 

 and if the farmers of the State of Indiana want work done along the 

 line of field work, dairy worli, or anything of the kind— feeding animals, 

 or anything of the sort— we are perfectly willing to do these things if the 

 funds are provided. All that is needed is the funds, for the executive 

 heads stand ready and willing to do Avhatever they can do. I think this 

 should be done in Indiana. And it would be done if the farmers would 

 furnish the money to cai-ry on the investigation. In Illinois the farmers 

 decided that they wanted this kind of work carried on, and they appointed 

 a committee which went to work and showed just what they wanted 

 done, and they got over a quarter million dollars from their legislature 

 for the different branches of agricultural Investigation and education. 



The creamery interest took the lead in the tight against oleomargarine 

 in this country, requiring that it should bo sold only on its merits. They 

 had to fight the strongest and largest (rust and corporation in the United 

 States, with an unliniiled amount of money bade of it. Everything that 

 could be done by the us,e of money was done in behalf of oleomargarine, 

 but in spite of this fact Congress passed a law. Why? Because the 

 dairy i)eople made it known, by corresjioiuhMice and postal cards, that 

 they wanted that law passed. I remember that when it was tinally about 



