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412 creameries and cheese factories and fixtures $ 1,236,000 



One million cows, at $35 a head ' 35,000,000 



Four and-a-half acres of land to a cow to support 



her, at $50 an acre 225,000,000 



4,163 teams, with wagons and harness, $300 each 1,248,900 



To feed those teams, hay and 1,515,332 bush, oats . . . 579,489 



250,000 milk cans, at $3.50 each 875,000 



6,244 laborers, at $432 per year 2,697,408 



Making the whole estimate $266,636,797 



Mr. Broomell: If there be nothing more said on that subject, I would 

 like to bring to your consideration, so that the Association may take some 

 action upon the matter, this question of adulteration which was brought up 

 by the secretary this afternoon. 



It occurs to me, that this Association, in conjunction with the committee 

 which was appointed by the Elgin Board of Trade on Monday last, may, in 

 due course of time, take measures to bring an influence to bear upon the 

 legislature of the state in this coming meeting at Springfield, to have a law 

 passed which will be efficient in meeting the question of adulteration of but- 

 ler, or anything else it is thought wise to include. I suggest as a way to get 

 at it, that the chairman of this Convention appoint a committee of five to 

 report to-morrow morning, having taken time to deliberate. In order to get 

 members of a committee who will act and give it their attention, I suggest 

 a committee of five be appointed by this convention, to co-operate with a 

 similar committee from the Elgin Board of Trade, to bring the matter before 

 the coming meeting of the Illinois Legislature, I make that motion. Motion 

 seconded. 



Mr. McGlincy : It seems to me there is no question likely to be up in 

 our whole session of such vital importance to the farming industry of this 

 State as the question of the adulteration of food products, and especially but- 

 ter ; there is not another industry in the State or in the world with the 

 amount of capital invested in it, that the figures here to-day show is in- 

 vested in this ; and are the farmers of Illinois going to sit down and let these 

 fiends put upon the market a product ruinous to health, and ruinous to the 

 pocket book, and stamping out the reputation of this Elgin or Illinois butter? 

 And yet time and again efforts have been made in this direction, and they 

 have proven utter failures simply because you will sit down here and '' reso- 

 lute " until doomsday, and you don't furnish the wherewithal to set the ball 

 in motion. If this was for a railroad, insurance or iron interest, or any 

 other interest, men would place their shoulders to the wheel, they would go 

 before the legislature, and they would demand that they should get such 

 laws as would be beneficial to them. I am opposed to passing resolutions 

 until resolutions are followed by action that will be felt throughout the 

 State. The people of this county, as well as other counties, can urge the 

 members of the legislature to come up and help us in this matter. Kow, if 

 this Association will form a committee that will report to this Association, 

 let us each and all put our shoulders to the wheel and fasten a law upon the 

 statute books that no guilty man can escape. I am in favor of the resolution 

 if the people will back it up when they get it through the Association. Motion 



