102 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



The Wisconsin Daily and Food. Commission took thirty 

 samples of cream of tartar, and twenty-four out of the thirty 

 did not contain a trace of cream of tartar. Does any one 

 wonder that Bright's disease is on the increase, when you 

 consider the increased work that the organs of the body 

 have to do to eliminate the poisons that our own neglect 

 and indifference allow the dishonest manufacturer to put 

 into our daily food? These questions are said to be raised 

 because the farmer is afraid of competition. Great Heavens ! 

 Does any one want to be poisoned in order to have compe- 

 tition ? 



There is only one remedy, — that of a united and willing- 

 co-operation on the part of the farmers to establish laws and 

 enforce their execution against this unpatriotic and fraudu- 

 lent traffic. The farmer should not fall back on old-time 

 ideas and methods to meet this difficulty. 



Our fathers knew nothing of this modern devil. How shall 

 he be cast out of the temple ? He has taken up his abode 

 in the swine, like his ancestor in the time of our Saviour, and 

 now devil, hog and all walk into the market and propose 

 to masquerade butter out of its rights as an honest proposi- 

 tion. Butter cannot masquerade ; it never poses for some- 

 thing else than butter. It always advertises its true quality, 

 and there is no mistaking its flavor, good or bad. For this 

 reason the consumer need never be deceived as to the true 

 character of butter. Think of that a moment. It never 

 poses for something else than butter. It always advertises 

 its true quality, and there is no mistaking its flavor, good or 

 bad. It is God's proposition, and nobody is ever deceived 

 thereby. It never was compounded by man ; all he did was 

 to separate it from the milk. It is a proposition direct from 

 the Maker himself. It was constructed for food. 



Here again must the farmer be a man of to-day, must put 

 himself into the co-operative ranks, where he can be counted 

 for his own defence. You here in Massachusetts have set a 

 splendid example to all the world. Your best citizens of 

 all classes have united and fought this question through the 

 highest courts to a triumphant finish. You established law, 

 but that is not execution. Execution will come from the 



