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They were not placed there with the view that they should receive any recog- 

 nition or any endorsement whatever from the State Board of Agriculture. 

 They did receive no more endorsement than the Thorley Food did when it was 

 permitted to take a place in the show that was not occupied by our regular 

 exhibit, and so with other things. I believe that the Board had no intention 

 in locating that exhibit in that building, but to give you, my friends, and other 

 dairymen a chance to find out. If it is a good thing the world ought to know it ; 

 if it is the bad thing that we know and believe that it is — because it is a cheat and 

 a fraud — then the world ought to know how to detect it on sight. The Board 

 believe that people should be better educated, and know how very easy it is to be 

 deceived when they think they are buying pure butter, and are buying a fraud 

 and substitute which is called butter. They believed they were doing you a 

 favor, but it seems they were not. I regret it very much. I regret that it 

 should have brought up the feeling that it has. 



Now, my friends, I can account for it in a very different way. You know 

 that there was a Butter, Cheese and Egg Association in convention at the time, 

 and that the sole object, the determined effort of that large body of honora- 

 ble gentlemen was, if possible, to annihilate butterine and oleomargarine, 

 and I am sorry that in doing that they prepared the minds of the dairy- 

 men for war, and war upon their friends ; and I do assure you that the 

 members of the State Board of Agriculture are your friends. And to show 

 you that that is true, I will state that it is the universal voice of that Board, 

 without one solitary exception, that if you men desire legislation in this State 

 they will work early and late— they will do all that is in their power to have 

 laws enacted to punish a man, and punish him with just such punishment as he 

 merits and deserves, if he sells you a pound of butterine as something else ; if 

 he sells you less than an ounce of it, on your plate, and pretends that he is giv- 

 ing you pure butter, that Board will help you and do all in their power to 

 secure the punishment of that man. 



I am sorry that so many mistakes have been made in these resolutions read 

 here a few minutes ago. It speaks of the National Butter, Cheese and Egg 

 Association holding the dairy show in Chicago. I supposed all this time that 

 the Illinois State Board of Agriculture was holding this show. I think that a 

 great many words have been said on both sides of this question. I think that 

 members of our Board have been personally annoyed and worried, and that 

 many things have been said that had better never have been said, and I do 

 believe that it is the business of this convention, rather than to take up and 

 try and bring to judgment their friends, the members of this State Board of 

 Agriculture, I believe it is their business to find out how we shall cope with 

 this enemy to good butter, by making our product so good that others cannot 

 be sold in the market, and also enacting such laws as shall prevent them by any 

 means selling their goods for anything more or less than just exactly what 

 they are. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Buell : I had the pleasure of meeting the State Board of Agriculture 

 at Springfield last winter, and discussing this subject of the dairy fair with 

 them, and I wish to assure the members of this convention that I was received 



