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into this matter and restaurants, hotels and the different places 

 that are selling this stuff, butterine, and palming it off on us 

 for butter, will sooner or later come to grief and it will cost them 

 a great deal of money. I presume in a city the size of Marengo 

 you are not troubled much in this way, but in the larger cities 

 there are millions of pounds of oleomargarine being consumed 

 as and for butter, which is wrong and I believe sooner or later 

 it will be eradicated. 



As I said before, we made no mistake in coming to Marengo, 

 Mr. Mayor and I can say for the people that will compose this 

 meeting, you need have no fear but what the city rules and laws 

 will be lived up to. We are a clean lot of people and ready to 

 be scrutinized by anyone and we hope we shall do this community 

 a lot of good, know we will if you all take an interest in the 

 subjects and discuss the papers as they come up. Do not sit 

 still after the paper has been read to you and let it fall flat. Some 

 one ask a question about something you do not understand. The 

 interest of a meeting depends to a large extent on the questions 

 and discussion of a subject, and I am satisfied if you take the 

 interest in the .meeting that you should, Marengo will not be 

 sorry she has asked the Illinois Dairy convention to meet here. 

 I thank you. 



The Chairman : — Mr. Newman, in mentioning the work the 

 association and the department of Agriculture are doing together, 

 forgot to say that Mr. Lane, of the Department of Agriculture, 

 as well as Mr. Credicott, is here. Mr. Lane is Assistant Chief 

 of the Dairy Division, has conducted the milk test this morning 

 and will speak this afternoon. We consider it quite an honor 

 to have both Mr. Lane and Mr. Credicott with us, and Mr. 

 Newman's not mentioning Mr. Lane was merely an oversight. 



Mr. Newman : — I should not have mentioned any names 

 because I am satisfied that everyone of the Department is with 

 us in spirit and heart. 



The Chairman : — Ts the president is not here, we cannot 

 have his annual adress and will take up the next number on the 

 program, " Lessons from the Milk Test," by Mr. C. B. Lane, 

 Asst. Chief of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



