310 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
We, the dairy and creamery men of Iowa, respectfully ask our mem- 
bers of Congress that the duties on dairy and farm products be main- 
tained; that a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to our representatives 
and senators in Congress. 
The resolutions as read were unanimously approved and accepted. 
President : We will now listen to S. B. Shilling, of Chicago. 
ADDRESS. 
BY S. B. SHILLING, OF CHICAGO. 
It is getting late so I am going to have some feeling for you and not 
afflict anything upon you any more than I can help. But there are one 
or two things that I want to dwell on for a short length of time, and the 
first of these is because it is uppermost in my mind and the minds of 
those who live in Chicago, and it undoubtedly has been brought to your 
attention in a way that has caused you to do considerable serious thinking 
if you are aware of this fact (I say this in consideration for the Chicago 
market in all I am saying) that there goes into force the first day of 
January a new ordinance which says this: That after January 1st no milk 
or its products shall be sold in the city unless from tuberculin tested 
cows or from pasteurized milk. Now this ordinance has been passed by 
the Chicago city council, but I want to say to you that are shipping to 
that market or contemplating doing so, that you stand in no danger what- 
ever. It was my privilege last week to go before Mayor Busse with a 
committee to learn their attitude in regard to the matter. Now they are 
not going to place the Chicago market in a position where they do not 
dare receive a pound of butter, because there is not a creamery, that I 
know of, that could comply with those requirements, either from tuber- 
culin tested cows or from pasteurized milk and cream. I have to bring 
this to you to show you the trend of events. It has been told to you 
several times that we have got to give the consuming public a guaranteed 
product. It is going to be up to you now in a short time to furnish a 
guaranteed healthful product to the consumers of this country, and you 
boys and buttermakers have got to put in pasteurizers. It is only a ques- 
tion of time before other markets will follow in the footsteps of Chicago. 
It don't do for us to oppose an ordinance of this kind. The Chicago com- 
mission mechants are not opposing it. An ordinance of this kind is good 
as far as it goes, but we say this that we won't stand for any prohibitive 
or drastic action upon it. They said, "you need have no fear that any 
action will be taken by the board of health or by Dr. Evans that will 
cause the loss of a single dollar to anyo'ne. They assured us, however, 
that this would be enforced gradually and you are going to have every 
opportunity to comply with it, and while I am not authorized to stand 
before you I know that I voice the sentiment of every commission man 
in the city of Chicago when I say that they will stand by every shipper 
and they won't stand by and see him lose money because of that ordi- 
nance going into effect. But boys, I want to impress upon you the fact 
that we must go to the consuming public with a guaranteed product, a 
