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Co-operating with other interests they secured appropriations 

 to be made and some $200,000 paid out of the City Treasury 

 for the construction of macadam roads within the city limits and 

 along which these farmers haul their produce to the market. 

 Beginning with three farmers, who opposed the dumping of 

 sewage by the Lake Shore Villages upon their land, they extend- 

 ed their organization until now it comprises a territory including 

 some 12 square miles within the Chicago city limits is several 

 miles wide, extending north up through the country and includ- 

 ing all the Villages above Evanston along the North Shore and 

 now they have the whole question of sanitary relief pending 

 before the Sanitary District of Chicago for its solution in their 

 behalf. 



This same organization through its milk shipping and dairy 

 interests have formed a nucleus as a basis of constructive legis- 

 lation , both as relating to City Ordinance and State Legislation 

 and c re now desirous of co-operating with this Association in 

 such way as your Directors may suggest. 



This side of that organization has extended its work and has 

 become incorporated. Its objects and purposes are set forth in 

 its Charter from which I read: ''The object for which it is form- 

 ed is to promote the milk producing industry in Northern Illi- 

 nois : to secure better and more adequate markets : to encourage 

 co-operation : to secure adequate Constructive Legislation by 

 the State and Municipalities and to maintain just relations there- 

 with : to promote social intercourse and educational advantages 

 amongst its members and in all things to protect and maintain 

 their rights." 



You will observe that I only speak in general regarding 

 these associations. I am promoting no particular organization. 

 I am advocating organization among the farming community for 

 the purpose of securing the passage of constructive laws for 

 their benefit. 



I see that my time is gone. Of course in the Agricultural 

 World the problem of progress is largely educational. This is 

 true in questions of legislation. This is well illustrated by the 

 simile : as if you walked into a great canyon, beside the mountain, 



