18 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



We have a fine dairy building on the State Fair grounds, 

 but it is not handled to the best advantage for promoting the 

 interests of the dairymen. Every dairyman in this state should 

 urge upon his representative on the Board of Agriculture, the 

 necessity of a Superintendent of the dairy building, who is a 

 practical and successful dairyman and one who will take an 

 active part in the promotion and accomplishment of a creditable 

 butter show. We need a man to organize and vigorously pro- 

 mote that department. The present refrigerator is well suited 

 for retaining the samples of milk and cream, which I hope will 

 be judged at our next fair. I recommend that this Association 

 offers suitable prizes to exhibitors in this class. Our state is cer- 

 tainly the land of " milk and honey," but our dairy products 

 exhibit ought to be large enough to crowd to the limit the dairy 

 building and leave no room for the honey. The State Board 

 could build an annex to the dairy building for the honey exhibit. 



state Pure Foocf Commission. 



The State Pure Food Commissioners have made wonderful 

 progress during the past year in establishing a better understand- 

 ing and in the enforcement of the laws relating to their work. 

 We owe our Dairy Commissioner, Mr. Schucknecht, our deepest 

 gratitude for the great work he has accomplished. Let us give 

 him more earnest and continued support in the future. The 

 present legislature can increase the appropriation for the Pure 

 Food Commission, much to the advantage of all and provide a 

 sufficient number of dairy inspectors to meet the present necessi- 

 ties and the rapidly developing work of the Pure Food Commis- 

 sion. It is hoped that the Pure Food Commission, in drafting 

 their new law, will make proper provision for establishing a de- 

 partment for the gathering of statistics of the dairy industry in 

 this state. 



The law regulating the manufacture, sale and analysis of 

 concentrated, commercial feed stuffs, for feeding live stock, is 

 a very important one. Its passage was secured at the last ses- 

 sion of the legislature, largely through the efforts of this Asso- 

 ciation. It is extremely advantageous to the dairy farmers and 



