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Another thing to improve our market is to prevent the 

 sale of adulterations and counterfeits. Filled cheese, 

 oleomargarine and compound lard may have their 

 place and use, but it certainly is not legitimate that they 

 should enter into competition with the pure articles they 

 basel}' represent. 



An eminent statesman recently said he wished it was 

 possible to make adulteration of food a crime. The far- 

 mers of this county and every other county wish so too, 

 and some day the possibility will come and the law be 

 enacted. 



It is on this broad ground of adulteration of food that 

 the battle should be fought, and not in the narrow line of 

 any one article. Put it all together and. go for a law large 

 enough to take it all in, with stringent enforcement and 

 heavy penalties. A law in which no single article is 

 picked out and gets the sympathy of the public as being 

 the under dog in the fight, but taking the whole univer- 

 sally recognized evil together, which all classes in city 

 and country, except those who are making money out of 

 it, will heartily co-operate to suppress. 



An improved market, favorable to both seller and buy- 

 er, will be best promoted by co-operation to make the ex- 

 change between them as direct and inexpensive as possible; 

 make the bridge as nearly free as its proper maintenance 

 will allow. 



Establish a system of strict supervision which shall pre- 

 vent cheating and being cheated by impure and unwhole- 

 some articles of food of every description. 



Unite to make the adulteration of all food a crime and 

 to prevent those fine appearing combinations of cotton- 

 seed oil and tallow, which are indignantly refused into 

 every foreign market, from becoming firmly established in 

 our home market to the utter ruin of our daily interests- 

 Let our markets be governed by the law of supply and 

 demand without the intervention and dictation of middle- 

 men, contractors and speculators. 



