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legislation it makes me feel as I do about it; it he thinks the 

 dairymen are a cipher in Illinois he is mistaken. I know a man 

 who would like to have been governor, but could not because 

 the dairymen said that he could not. 



If the dairymen ask this to be done, if they send a committee 

 down there, Governor Deneen will make the appointments. 

 Now remember what I say, if it does not happen you may pro- 

 nounce me a false prophet. The dairymen are a power in Illi- 

 nois. 



The President : — As dairymen, we do not talk for publica- 

 tion, but we do a little work where it is effective. 



Any further discussion on the subject. Mr. Long will you 

 kindly make that motion again? 



Air. Long: — Mr. Chairman, my idea is to have a committee 

 from this association go to Springfield and act with the pure food 

 commissioner. If this association appoints a committee to go 

 down there and act with him, it seems to me we ought to be 

 able to get some kind of a bill that would be satisfactory to the 

 association. That is my idea. 



Motion, having been made and seconded, was carried. 



The President : — 1 think I had better take a little time before 

 deciding on the members for this committee. 



We have heard from the manufacturer and buttermaker and 

 now we have the most important paper of them all. We want 

 to hear from the patrons' standpoint. This will be given to us 

 by Mr. Wilson, of Woodstock, one of our younger men . 



OUR CREAMERY NEEDS FROM A PATRON'S STANDPOINT. 



By Mr. L. D. Wilson, Woodstock, III. 



As this is the first time I have ever been with you I can't 

 Aery well say, as most of your speakers have said, that I am glad 



