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as the Lever oleo bill that would permit the oleomargarine to be sold in imitation 

 of butter, and 



Whereas, Mr. Thomas L. Rubey, representative of the Sixteenth District of 

 Missouri and a member of the Committee on Agriculture of the Sixty-third Congress, 

 has been active in the defense of the dairy interests by opposing the Lever oleo bill, 

 and the members of the Dairy Association appreciate his work ; therefore, be It 



Resolved, That the Secretary of the Dairy Association be instructed to send a 

 copy of these resolutions to Mr. Rubey, and in behalf of the association to tender him 

 their thanks for his interest in this matter and assure him of their best wishes and 

 support. 



Whereas, Under the present law of Missouri the responsibility of enforcing 

 sanitary regulations for dairy establishments and laws concerning standards for 

 dairy products is divided between the Food and Drug Commissioner and the Dairy 

 Commissioner and the latter office has never had an appropriation, and 



Whereas, The members of this association are in favor of strict enforcement of 

 standards for dairy products and of sanitary supervision and favor such arrangements 

 for securing law enforcement as will be most efficient, and 



Wliereas, The Dairy Commissioner by the present law is made responsible for 

 the giving of instruction in all lines of dairy work and in this way duplicating work 

 that this association believes can be done more efficiently and more economically by 

 the dairy department of the University ; therefore, be it 



Resolved, 1. That for the greatest efficiency the enforcement of all food laws 

 should be under one head, and this should be the Food and Drug Commissioner. 



2. The Food and Drug Commissioner should be given sufficient funds to allow of 

 the employment of the necessary number of competent dairy inspectors to properly 

 enforce the law concerning dairy products, including sanitary inspection. 



3. We recognize that it is the function of the dairy department of the University 

 to give such information concerning dairying as the people may desire. 



ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. 



(Marshall Gordon, Columbia.) 



Last winter during Farmers' Week we had the coldest weathor 

 I have ever known, and this fact prevented a large number of 

 dairymen and farmers from attending our convention. Presi- 

 dential timber therefore was quite scarce, and this accounts for 

 the fact that the speaker is now your presiding officer. This honor 

 having been thrust upon me entirely unsolicited, I can make only 

 one promise, that is, to do my best to serve you acceptably. 



This association has been in existence twenty-three years. It 

 has numbered among its members some of the best men of the 

 State. They have done a great work in the past and deserve our 

 lasting praise and gratitude. 



It was largely the work of this organization that brought 

 about the establishment in our Agricultural College of the dairy 

 department with its equipment of stock and buildings and its 

 splendid corps of professors. These men are not only working 

 out scientific problems in feed and breeding dairy stock and teach- 

 ing our boys how to farm, but they are coming to our very doors 



