ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



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We prosecuted in the city for bad milk between 500 and 600 

 cases, and we intend to prosecute the cases right along and make 

 the city dairymen do their part. You understand we have no 

 power outside of the city limits, but we know what we can do. 



In the first place, the city gives us power to condemn any 

 milk that arrives inside the city limits not in proper condition — - 

 that is your loss. In the next place we know very well when milk 

 is tested we can hand over to the authorities of the state of Illi- 

 nois the names of those people who are not sending milk and ship- 

 ping according to the laws of Illinois and let them take hold of it 

 and make the prosecutions and take it right from the station be- 

 fore it is delivered and put on the cars. The authorities of St. 

 Louis saw there was no milk law, but in 1890 an amendment was 

 added to the constitution which gave the cities and towns the 

 right to make their own ordinances as they saw the need. That 

 makes the milk laws of Missouri and especially of St. Louis so 

 much stronger, and it does not interfere with any state law. The 

 City of St. Louis is its own master in the milk law. 



If we know milk is coming into St. Louis that is not pure 

 we have the right to stop it if it is not according to ordinance. 



We hope all of you will do your utmost to try and produce 

 a good straight article for the city. 



Q: — In those prosecutions who are the guilty parties, the 

 parties outside or inside the city limits ? 



A : — They are both, only I am sorry to say that in cases that 

 we have found that the dealers in the city have had to suffer for 

 what have been done by the farmers. I know that from exper- 

 ience. I have taken samples from the farms that have been 

 shipped in from the country, and with the previous day the dealer 

 had told me he had never touched that milk, that it was just the 

 same as received and I believed him because I believed him to be 

 a gentleman. I took 28 samples and out of that number I think 

 five was below 2 per cent and two out of the lot tested 1.4 per 

 cent, both skimmed and watered. Now you see what had been 

 done to that milk. No cow produced such milk and it had been 

 allowed to be shipped into the city. In other cases, the same man 



