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and we have got that to compete with. Of course they 

 have an advantage over the butter people, from the fact 

 that they have the biggest margin of profit, and yet at the 

 same time the dairy industry is so large that if the dairy 

 people would get in, just in a small way, there wouldn't 

 be any trouble about putting this thing over. I said last 

 night I was very grateful to the people in Illinois, to your 

 Commissioner of Agriculture, your present Commissioner 

 of Agriculture and President O'Hair, for the service ren- 

 deed in getting this law through in Illinois. I have spent 

 quite a little time in Springfield, three years ago this win- 

 ter, in having the law enacted. One of the reasons that I 

 tackled Illinois among the first states was on this account, 

 the very fact that there was so much oleo made here, I 

 knew we would have a lot of opposition and I felt that if 

 we could get the law enacted here in Illinois, that I could 

 go out and say, ''Well, we got by in Illinois, and if we can 

 there, there is every reason to believe we should enact it 

 in this state," and it has been a wonderful help as I have 

 gone from one place to another. 



What happened over in Indiana? I went over there 

 two years ago and through some miscue the bill was not 

 introduced. Last winter I was west, in Idaho, through the 

 entire west, and I didn't get down there, but the bill was 

 introduced. I went down and we had a Jersey association, 

 the Holstein people, and the general dairy crowd down 

 there, and I gave them what information I could as to what 

 to do to get by with it, and they did. But what happened 

 later? The speaker of the house signed the bill and it went 

 over to the president of the senate. He signed it, and what 

 happened then? It disappeared before it got to the gov- 

 ernor. Well, I don't believe any of the dairymen stole it, 

 but I do think I know who had something to do with its 

 disappearing. 



Now, gentlemen, I speak of that only to show the 

 importance of this measure, and why it should be enacted 

 in many of the states all over the country. Now it is get- 

 ting late and I have talked quite a little, and I want to 

 thank you very much to have had the opportunity of 

 speaking to you this afternoon. (Applause.) 



