ILLINOIS DAIRYMEXS ASSOCIATION'. 



cow to give milk less than 46 weeks out of every 5:2; also as to 

 the quality of the milk; and to close, I milk her with my own 

 hands. 



Add to these suggestions, a proper barn and barn-\"rd, 

 cows well cared for, especially on stormy days, then milked prop- 

 erly with clean hands, using clean pails and cans, cooled as 

 quickly as you can; ever remember that cleanliness and cold are 

 the essentials to get you dairy products to market in the best 

 of shape : then, if the business does not pay you, look elsewhere 

 for the reason, but, if these instructions are lived up to, the 

 burden of the manufacturer and dealer has been made much 

 lighter and your state can again carry the Banner, instead of 

 simply walking in the ranks. 



For Pure Dairy Products. 



I have been much pleased with the work of Dr. Reynolds 

 and his department in the city of Chicago in his endeavors to 

 have clean milk of proper quality brought to Chicago and then 

 to have it delivered and sold honestly. It is one of the safest 

 and best of foods and the people will use daily, double the quanti- 

 ty, if they can depend on getting it right. 



All dairy products, coming under the head of human foods, 

 the state should enlarge the " Pure Food" act. place a dairyman 

 at the head of it who will act in conjunction with the city authori- 

 ties, as well as to have authority on the farm, in the factory, and 

 over transportation. 



The powers of the Pure Food Commission should be en- 

 larged and not another commission created, with assistants to 

 see the law put into effect ; I know it is difficult to keep honest 

 by law, but, we must continue trying. 



The present number of inspectors are not enough for Chi- 

 cago, to say nothing of the state work. If one will read the 

 commissioner's report he can readily see the immense amount 

 of work necessary to be done to insure purity in even the common 

 f< •< ds. Truly, we are an avaricious people, when manufacturers 

 and dealers will knowingly place health destroying foods before 



