142 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



as this address their serious attention to the business, and I assure you 

 that the University will be only too glad to contribute anything in its 

 power to assist in putting the dairy trade of this country where it be- 

 longs — second to that of no other industry and of no other country on 

 earth. 



To accomplish this requires three things: 



1. Higher averages of quality in dairy products. 



2. Greater uniformity. 



3. More liberal evidence to the buyer that, he is getting the grade of 

 goods he desires. 



This is only another way of saying that what is needed is a system of 

 registered brands or trade marks protected on the one hand by law 

 against imitations, infrlngments or violations of any kind, and on the 

 other by such methods and manufacture and inspection as shall insure 

 uniformity, quality, up to grade in each particular brand, Or, in other 

 words, imitate the methods that have been found useful in extending 

 trade in other industries, and the present distrust and odium under 

 which other productions are laboring will disappear. 



Are the dairymen able to accomplish this. Upon the answer to 

 this question it seems to me depends the real future of the dairy indus- 

 try. It was the American system of meat inspection that put our meat 

 into Germany in spite of the Germans, and it is that system upon which 

 the stability of the meat trade depends. 



Is not this worth more than passing attention? Are not conven- 

 tions like this the only agents powerful enough to take the initiative? 

 Is it not matters of this kind that such conventions are to undertake, 

 and should not this body maintain a standing committee on traae condi- 

 tions to devise means for the further development of the industry it 

 represents? 



