70 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



J. L. Witbeck, Belvidere ; E. E. Chester, Champaign ; Ed. J. Oatman, Dundee ; 



W R. Hostetter, Mt. Carroll ; L. M. Potter, La Fox. 



R. Lespinasse, 



W. R. Hostetter, 



D. C. Wolverton, 



Report adopted. Committee. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT. 



To the State Dairymen's Association of Illinois : 



Your Committee on the Address of the President would respectfully report : 



1st. Calling attention to the encouraging view presenting the comparative 

 profit of dairying and the many ways in which we can and should strive to im- 

 prove upon present methods, keeping squarely into line and holding a firm grip. 



2d. The action of the State Board of Agriculture of Illinois, in deciding 

 the case of the butterine men at the dairy show in an ex parte way, shows grave 

 error of judgment, and those members whose constituencies are engaged in 

 dairying as a leading industry are specially to be censured for their action. The 

 position assumed by these gentlemen is one that cannot be either excused or 

 explained away, and it particularly behooves their constituents to use every 

 honorable endeavor, to the effect that their successors on the Board be true and 

 faithful representatives of the paramount interests of these districts. 



3d. Constant and intelligent agitation of the merits and demerits of the 



case of 



genuine dairy products, 



vs. 



BUTTERINE, OLEOMARGARINE, ET AL., 



sold as, and under the guise of dairy products, should be kept up and no stone 

 left unturned to so instruct the public in every school district of the State, that 

 public opinion may require and demand imperatively and absolutely, from oui 

 next State Legislature, a law upon this subject which shall do justice to th^ 

 dairymen of Illinois. 



4th. The proposition to organize creamerymen, dairymen, dealers in gen 

 uine dairy products, and farmers all over the State, to carry on, ceaselessly anc 

 actively, a rapid and energetic warfare between pure and adulterated dairj 

 products, cannot be too strongly commended by your committee, and the neces^ 

 sity and wisdom of such a move, as well as the appropriateness and timely 

 occasion, will strike forcibly every member of the Association. Now is th<j 

 accepted time— right is on our side, and confident in the honor and justice o'. 

 our cause, we should so gather our strength and unite our forces, that the inside 

 ious parasites upon our industry may be forever laid at rest. 



5th. Your committee would recommend that every creameryman, butte: 

 and cheese maker, and private dairyman in the State of Illinois, be requestec 

 and solicited to become a member of this Association at once ; and further 

 that each creamery be selected as the center of a district to engage the atten 

 tion of every patron of the creamery, and all farmers within its radius, to th< 

 important question of adulteration of dairy products, and that for the purpos< 

 special printed matter be prepared and furnished from time to time by thi 



