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whole people of our country should rise in their might and 

 proclaim their determination to have some important change 

 brought about on this subject ".* The convention re- 

 sponded by instructing its legislative committee to take 

 prompt action. 



The Wisconsin Dairymen's Association 2 adopted the fol- 

 lowing resolution in 1881 : 



The dairy interest of Wisconsin has become the leading 

 branch of farm production, and this great interest is seriously 

 menaced, and in danger of being ruined by the manufacture of 

 large quantities of oleomargarine, sueine and other adulter- 

 ations disguised to take the place of genuine butter, which find 

 their way into the general market and are placed before the 

 consumer as pure butter, greatly to the injury of the butter 

 makers of the state, therefore, 



Resolved, That in view of these facts and their bearing on 

 the great interests we represent, this Association most earnestly 

 requests at the hands of the present legislature, the passage 

 of a law, etc. 



Among other resolutions the Michigan State Dairy As- 

 sociation adopted the following: 



Resolved, That the Michigan State Dairy Association em- 

 phatically demand the passage of a law compelling dealers to 

 give with every purchase of imitation butter a written or 

 printed notice that the product sold is a substitute for butter 

 or an imitation of it. 



Other state dairy associations were also active. Enough 

 has been cited to show that the real force behind the move- 

 ment was the dairy farmer through his dairy association. 

 Not only did the farmer work for state dairy laws but for 



1 Report of Illinois Dairymen's Association for 18S0, p. 348. 

 J Report for 1881, p. 130. 



