84 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



for nearly every time there is an embargo placed someone 

 suffers. Some farmer may be present in Texas to buy cat- 

 tle at the time that embargo was placed. Some farmer 

 may have innocently shipped cattle from the state of Texas 

 and had them held up for a few days on the road by that 

 embargo. Embargoes are not anything to play with, be- 

 cause they oftentimes hurt, but when the livestock indus- 

 try of a great state like Illinois is at stake, then it is neces- 

 sary that we have machinery on the job for the protection 

 of that industry, and it is necessary to take action and not 

 take any chances. 



The veterinary branch of the Division of Animal In- 

 dustry worked constantly in connection with the white 

 snakeroot epidemic, and with every other kind of an epi- 

 demic that has started or looked like it might start, con- 

 tinually trying to protect the farmer, the livestock owner 

 of this state, and I believe upon investigation that you will 

 say that without that protection the livestock industry of 

 the state would be in grave danger all the time. 



I do not wish to take a great deal more of your time, 

 so I am going to pass on hurriedly. I am not going to stop 

 to take up the matter of the Apiary Division, the work 

 they are doing for the eradication of foul brood in the 

 bees, nor do I wish to take up your time on poultry hus- 

 bandry and their egg-laying contests at Kankakee, Quincy, 

 and Murphysboro. I won't take time to discuss state rec- 

 ords and records of the United States and some few world- 

 records made in those few egg-laying contests in this state, 

 but we will pass on and not stop to consider the appropria- 

 tions, I may say, for the Department of Agriculture so far 

 as the appropriation for farm advisor, passing on their 

 salary each month, nor will we stop for the consideration 

 of the appropriation for county fairs nor any of the others, 

 but I do wish to mention briefly another division of the 

 Illinois Department of Agriculture, the Illinois State Fair. 



In some ways we have the greatest state fair in the 

 Union from a standpoint of exhibits and educational fea- 

 tures, taking them all into consideration as a whole there 

 isn't a state fair in the United States that excels Illinois, 



