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tion of human food is not quite so potent as the cannon, yet it is very deci- 

 sive in its results. 



Why should not mankind (who are said to have been created after the 

 image of God,) be as healthy as the animals of the farm or forest? Does the 

 adulterated food or medicine consumed affect the health of the human fam- 

 ily unfavorably? 



For an answer to these questions I will first refer you to the asylums of 

 the country, and secondly to our own families. 



Let me ask how many perfectly healthy persons can be found in either ? 

 And why are they not enjoying that perfect health which God gave them 

 when born into the world ? 



This may be the Yankee way of answering a grave question ; but my 

 object at this time of inviting your attention to this subject is to stimu- 

 late profound thought in regard to what we eat and drink. It has been re- 

 ported that what is supposed to be eggs of the tape worm, together with 

 bacteria fungi, and even trichinae, have been found in adulterated butter. 

 When we come to know that the tape-worm found in the human family may 

 and frequently does come from uncooked or rare cooked beef, and trichinae 

 from pork similarly used, and that bacteria and fungi may be found in both, 

 and that the oil oi fat of these animals is used for the purpose of adulterating 

 butter without first being thoroughly cooked, can we have much good reason 

 to doubt as to the danger of using a compound thus made? 



Cheese is or has been adulterated with hog's lard. It should never be 

 made or handled by any person who has the fear of God before his eyes, or 

 the love of the human family in his heart. 



We clip the following from the Chicago Journal of September 17, 1884, 

 which goes to show to a certain extent the trafl&c in adulterated butter in 

 only one city of our country, and that is not Chicago either: 



"The United States Commissioner of Agriculture has presented to the 

 British Minister at Washington a report, in which, it is stated, regarding the 

 butter of New York, that out of 100,000,000 pounds sold annually in New 

 York City between 40,000,000 and 60,000,000 pounds are bogus. Oleomargarine 

 has, it is said, cut down the price of average butter to ten cents a pound, in- 

 volving a loss of $4,000,000 annually to the farmers." 



A few years ago our legislature passed a law bearing in a measure upon 

 this great evil ; but in looking the law over it much reminds one of the old 

 cow in her stanchel that has given us a full pail of luscious milk, and when 

 we are about to rise and depart raises her foot and kicks it all into the gutter. 



After going on and fixing the penalty for a violation of the law we find 

 the following: " No person shall be convicted under any of the foregoing 

 sections of the act, if he shows to the satisfaction of the court or jury that 

 he did not know that be was violating the provision^ of the law, and could 

 not by reasonable diligence have obtained the knowledge." 



Gov. Hamilton, in his address delivered at the Illinois Dairymen's Con- 

 vention last winter, made some very pertinent remarks bearing upon the 

 provisions of this law, well worthy the perusal of every citizen of the State. 



What is such a law good for ? It is worth just about as much as my old 

 cow's pail of milk is which she kicked a few moments ago into the ditch, and 



