136 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



law, namely, the color feature which is the one feature prevent- 

 ing the fraudulent selling of olemargarine as butter, and the 

 only possible protection to the ultimate consumer. 



WHEREAS, The Lodge Cold Storage Bill limiting the 

 period for holding butter, eggs, poultry, etc, in storage to three 

 (3) months is before Congress, and 



WHEREAS, The storing of farm produce is necessary as 

 an equalizer of prices preventing ruinously low prices in times 

 of flush production and excessive high prices in times of short 

 production, and 



WHEREAS, It is abundantly proven that the cold storing 

 of foods under modern conditions does not in the least injure 

 these foods. 



THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, That we condemn 

 the three months' feature of the Lodge bill and ask our repre- 

 sentatives in Congress to favor a bill that will permit the holding 

 of food for periods long enough to guarantee safe market con- 

 ditions, and at the same time, guard the public health. 



WHEREAS, The Adulterated Butter Law as interpreted 

 by the Internal Revenue Department, branding a manufacturer 

 or a dealer a criminal who manufactures or handles butter con- 

 taining 16 per cent moisture or over, has proven unjust in many 

 instances, and, 



WHEREAS, At certain seasons of the year the small 

 creamery man with the so-called "Irish" test may be deceived in 

 the quantity of moisture in any churning, and 



WHEREAS, It is simply commercially impossible for the 

 dealer to test each lot of butter he handles, and 



WHEREAS, The manner of taking of samples by the Gov- 

 ernment Inspectors is subject to criticism, 



' AND WHEREAS, The Oleomargarine Act protects the 

 manufacturer and dealer to the extent that it must be shown that 

 he knowingly manufactured or dealt in said olemargarine. There- 

 fore the Illinois State Dairymen's Association in annual Con- 

 vention assembled, 



RESOLVE, That we favor a change in the law to the extent 

 of adding the word "knowingly" in the sentences necessary to 



