FIFTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION 49 



This is the people's property. Are we going to tolerate con- 

 ditions of this kind and practically eat out the heart of the 

 industry. No, let us put our shoulder to the wheel and, 

 especially out here in the Southern part of the State, let us 

 look closely, think sharply, act wisely and accept nothing 

 unless we know it is absolutely clean. 



We have such cattle in Illinois. We have over nine 

 hundred fully accredited herds from which you can pick. 



When you go to buy, be sure you buy from clean 

 sources and establish the industry down here on a basis on 

 which it will stand, so that in the future you will have some- 

 thing to fall back on. 



Now if you gentlemen had your dairy industry devel- 

 oped down here and could supply the demand, think what 

 it would mean in dollars and cents. I would like to see this 

 money stay in Illinois, because it belong to you. We are 

 going to supply this demand as our clean cattle increase. 



I do not know if I have answered the question in some 

 of you people's minds or not. Tuberculosis is a large sub- 

 ject and it would take some time to cover it. 



Along the lines of how this work is conducted : The 

 State and Federal Departments are under the instructions 

 of Congress. Congress requested this one thing: that the 

 Federal Department assume the responsibility for the work 

 and that is why the Federal Department has one man in 

 charge of the work in every state. 



This work is done in co-operation with the various State 

 Departments and for the success of the work in Illinois a 

 great deal of the credit is due to the State Department. 



There has been absolutely no friction and I know of no 

 state where they have gotten along so beautifully as in 

 Illinois. The administration has been very friendly toward 

 this work. 



When this work became so great, the counties wanted 

 to take it over, because they realized that it would have to 

 go down on a smaller basis. Sixty-three counties of Illinois 

 have made appropriations to pay the operating expenses of 

 the work. 



A man is selected in each county and tests conducted 



