126 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



The subject assigned me is 'Ture Milk Campaign in Illi- 

 ois," and though sickness has prevented my collecting absolutely 

 accurate data, or as much of it as I should like to have presented 

 to you, still figures and statistics are dry anyhow and what you 

 are most interested in are the main facts and these I can give you. 



First, let me tell you something of the importance of milk 

 as a food that you may fully realize the necessity of having it 

 pure. Milk is nature's first food and therefore heads the list 

 as the one most important food. It is the only known natural 

 food which, alone will sustain human life indefinitely, and is 

 the only natural food which can be successfully substituted for 

 the first food nature has provided for the human family, and for 

 this reason milk is the most important of all foods ; and there is 

 no man smart enough to adulterate milk for profit on the one 

 hand who is so dull on the other as not to know that he has com- 

 mitted a wrong by tampering in any way with this most important 

 of foods and, thanks to modern sentiment for pure milk, he gets 

 but little sympathy when exposed. 



In the investigation which we conducted throughout the 

 state last summer we started about June 1st, it having taken the 

 best part of two months after my entering the department in 

 April to fully equip and prepare for the work, and overcome the 

 hundred and one obstacles encountered here and there. So far 

 as my work in the office would permit I took part in the inspection 

 of the milk supply of the various cities, but in a very large measure 

 it was necessary to delegate the work to our inspectors whom I 

 instructed in the work as well as I could. But in this I again 

 had the force of the old adage, about the shoemaker sticking to 

 his last, demonstrated, for I soon found that while the inspectors 

 perhaps did the best they could, I could not get the statistics 

 I desired and required. I could tell them what I wanted as mi- 

 nutely as if talking to a child, but lack of long training in that 

 direction stood in the way of their appreciating the necessity 

 and seriousness of the situation, and with all respect to the in- 

 spectors I say now that my experience the past year has taught 

 me that for dairy work we should have trained or experienced 

 dairymen. 



