ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



What we want is expert dairy inspectors appointed to look 

 after the dairy products of Illinois, then when her butter goes 

 into other states it will be so marked that there will be no ques- 

 tion about it; when it passes the inspector that it goes just as 

 our products go over in the foreign countries at the present time, 

 through the able efforts of Secretary Wilson. 01 the National 

 Agricultural Department. 



If we work together and co-operate together we will have 

 no trouble along that line. I have devoted more time to dairy 

 matters in my report than ever before, for that reason. In our 

 last annual report we devoted little space to the dairy, from the 

 fact that two years previous we had given it considerable atten- 

 tion. In the last report we have taken up over five hundred 

 creameries in the state. We have given much information about 

 the creameries in the northern, central and southern part of the 

 state for he benefit of those who would like to go into the 

 business, and to show what the industry is doing. We are try- 

 ing every way to help you, because what we want is better co- 

 operation. 



Xow, gentlemen. I am not going to take up any more of 

 your valuable time. As I said, I am pleased to meet you here. 

 I assure you that you are doing a great work. It may seem 

 simple to you, but when you look back over the thirty-one years 

 of your existence and see what has been accomplished in this 

 state, and if you went up and down this great state as I do 

 and saw what has been accomplished by the dairy industry, ic 

 would be plain to you that you have every reason to be encour- 

 aged, for Illinois is forging to the front, especially up north 

 here where you have the creamery and the dairy and the silo. 

 One creamery firm has built over tyenty-six creameries in South- 

 ern and Central Illinois in the past year, and the work is still 

 going on. 



Do not be discouraged, gentlemen; it may seem to you that 

 you are getting along slowly, but all great movements go along 

 slowly and take time. Our agricultural and dairy school is 

 turning out young men with wonderful ability. The trouble 



