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herd for three consecutive years, did not miss weighing a milking 

 in those three years, and I appreciate and reahze the value of this 

 work. 



We will now have an address on "Work Along Dairy Lines" 

 by Mr. H. E. Schuknecht, Assist. Dairy and Food Commis- 

 sioner of Illinois. Mr. Schuknecht has had a good deal of ex- 

 perience in the last few years looking into the milk produced 

 in towns around here and quite a number of people in the state 

 of Illinois turn pale when Mr. Schuknecht steps, up and asks for 

 a glass of milk. I have the pleasure in introducing to you Asst. 

 Dairy and Food Commissioner, Mr. Schuknecht. 



WORK AMONG DAIRY LINES. 



Hon. H. E. Schuknecht, Assistant Dairy and Food Commissioner, Chicago. 



Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: — 



I feel that I should apologize for appearing here at all this 

 afternoon because I have had no opportunity to prepare an ad- 

 dress. You will escape very fortunately because I find it very 

 convenient to have an attack of Grip just before the Dairyman's 

 meeting. I do not enjoy the Grip very much but between the 

 Grip and the address I do not know which I would choose, but, 

 nevertheless, I shall try to give you a brief summary of the con- 

 ditions in the food commissioner's ofBce as they exist now and 

 a comparison with how we found them a year and eight months 

 ago. 



You may not be aware of the fact that until 1906 never in 

 the history of the state had there been anything like a concerted 

 effort on the part of any state department to look into and regu- 

 late the condition of the milk supply of the various cities in the 

 state. It is true that some few of the cities did some work on 

 their own account, such as Chicago and a very few others. In 

 1906 we were not able to do much work as we would like to have 

 done but we did sufficient to uncover a great many very unpleas- 



