:216 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



care for the future, the legislator is the most anxious man in the world to 

 ^stand well before the people of his district. 



We who are doing the active work in this fight and spending weeks in 

 .your behalf without financial remuneration ask that you give urv all the 

 lielp you can by adopting resolutions, by requesting every member of the 

 legislature to vote for a bill being supported by the Dairy Union creating a 

 Dairy Commissioner and appropriating not less than eight thousand dollars 

 ($3,000) for its maintenance, and have that resolution adopted and printed 

 ^separate from any other and mailed to each senator and representative 

 <©utside of Cook County, together with a letter calling their attention to 

 the resolution. Then every member present write a personal letter to his 

 "State Senator and Representative ar.king them to support the measure. 



I regret my inability to be present at this meeting. The business 

 which takes me away is connected with a movement which our National 

 ^organization, of which I am also secretary, is taking to secure an increase 

 4n the internal revenue tax on oleo margarine which is colored. We want 

 that tax made ten cents, instead of two cents, and are now organizing for 

 this national campaign. 



RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED. 



The Committee on Resolutions submitted their report, which was 

 cananimously adopted as follows: 



WHEREAS, it has come to the knowledge of the members of the Illi- 

 nois State Dairymen's Association, in convention assembled, that the 

 facilities for giving instruction and training in dairy husbandry, and for 

 carrying on the work of experimentation at the College of Agriculture, 

 located at Champaign, are wholly inadequate and in no sense commensurate 

 with the importance of this leading branch of husbandry in this great 

 •agricultural state, and 



