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ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Equipment. Have the latest and best utensils for your work, 

 with the permanent buildings improved as soon as circumstances 

 will allow. 



Regularity and promptness in your business. 



Keep accounts, and make a practice of testing your cows, 

 both as to feed, quantity and quality of milk each will give, and 

 remember that small leaks will sink large ships. 



And gentlemen, one or two other words I wish to give you 

 €ach who are shipping. You may be sure the coming year there 

 will be a high price paid for milk shipped into the city. Let 

 your influence go out to your neighbors that if you can only have 

 every one in your district put in three extra cows so as to increase 

 your quantity, it will aid materially in the amount sent to St. 

 Louis. You know milk is a very hard thing to get, especially in 

 the summer in proper condition. The extra price you are likely 

 to get from those shippers it will pay you to take the proper care 

 of it because you can just make up your mind that no sour milk 

 will be paid for. You may as well as not take a little more pains, 

 a little more care and it will pay you well for so doing. I know 

 some of you men will say you have been accustomed to do this 

 and that in the past, and I know it is very hard to teach an old 

 dog new tricks, but because you have been doing so in the past 

 is no reason why you should not improve for the future. Go 

 ahead, progress, get on and if any of you want any information 

 I will cheerfully give it to you. 



I am distributing a pamphlet, issued by the city and you 

 are welcome to one of them, also the milk ordinance of the city, 

 and you can study it for yourself. 



This milk ordinance has been neglected; the office has been 

 a political one and the person was put in because he was a politi- 

 cian, and he could not prosecute the ordinance as it should have 

 'been. Now, the oftice is practically non-political, and we are 

 carrying out that ordinance as well as we know how and circum- 

 stances will allow. Wq are not a very large staff, but Ave are do- 

 ing good work, and we are carrying it out as fair as we are able. 



