IJ^LINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 153 



"ducers, the only food producers in the country, and if the market 

 is destroyed for those products, where is the business of the 

 country going to generally? 



Gentlemen, all I can say is, that every time that any man 

 •comes before you asking your suffrages to put him into the State 

 Legislature or the National Legislature, ask him one or two 

 straight questions: ''Do you favor Pure Food Legislation," and 

 "Are you going to work for it," and tell him no man can repre- 

 sent me in the halls of Congress or in the Legislature of the 

 State of Illinois unless he will favor that kind of legislation. 

 If the farmers, the food producers of this country, will but work 

 together along these lines, we shall get an era of pure and not 

 adulterated food. 



Mr. Judd : Do you farmers realize that the olemargarine produc- 

 tion in this country amounts to the production of 750,000 cows 

 a year, it takes the place of all the butter those cows can make. 

 Do you realize that it takes nearly 200,000 men to take care of 

 that number of cows.-* Do you realize that there are fifteen to 

 twenty millions of dollars invested in farms and implements and 

 stock connected with those cows.^ Do you realize the amount 

 of feed it would take annually to feed those cows, how it would 

 raise the price of corn and the price of your butter and the 

 price of every pound of milk that is sold in the city of St. Louis 

 and every other city in the state.^ If you can only realize these 

 things and will demand of your legislature what you ought to 

 have, we shall be able to bring on this era of which Mr. Willson 

 speaks. 



Recitation, Miss Neltor. 



The convention adjourned till 9 o'clock the next day. 



The convention met at 9 o'clock a. m., Jan. 

 The president in the chair. 



