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system as used by the United States Department in the examina- 

 tion of stables and dairies in the state, and the pubhcation of a 

 bulletin showing scoring of all plants examined, and 



Resolved, That we favor the passage of a law by the 

 present General Assembly of this state, giving the Pure Food 

 Commissioner and his assistants plenary power to enforce proper 

 sanitary conditions in all places within the state where dairy 

 products of any kind are produced or manufactured, and 



Resolved, That the thanks of this Association be and are 

 hereby extended to the Department of Agriculture, and espec- 

 ially to Assistant Chief C. B. Lane for his able and instructive 

 address at this our thirty-third annual convention. 



With the vast and growing importance of the dairy inter- 

 ests of this country, and the far-reaching influence of these inter- 

 ests upon the physical well being of so large a proportion of the 

 American people and feeling that the dairy interests are of such 

 vital importance to prosperity of this country, therefore be it 



Resolved, That it is the sense of the Illinois State Dairy- 

 men's Association that the Secretary of the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture request Congress to create a separate 

 and distinct bureau for the dairy interests, and further 



Resolved, That a copy of the above resolutions be sent to 

 the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture and to Chief 

 of Dairy Division Walter R. Kimsey, DuQuoin; C. F. Mills, 

 Springfield; D. C. Smith, Lake Zurich, committee. 



Mr. Kimsey: — I move the adoption of the resolutions as 

 read. Seconded. 



All in favor say ''Aye." Opposed? None. Carried. 



By the President : — I call for the report of the Nomination 

 Committee. 



Mr. Kimsey : — The chairman of the Nomination Committee 

 was called home, and asked me to read the report. 



For President, L. N. Wiggins; Vice President, J. P. 

 Mason; Directors, A. F. Jensen, Effingham; E. L. Wilson, 

 Manhattan; M. S. Campbell, Genoa; W. E. Janes, Hinsdale, 

 and W. R. Kimsey, DuQuoin. 



