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Association, for distribution by the creameries working in harmony and con- 

 junction with this Association. 



6th. This committee further recommends that a special request be addressed 

 to the Dairymen's State Associations of Iowa, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota 

 and Mississippi Valley Associations, for the appointment of a special inter- 

 state committee on organization, and that our Board of Directors appoint from 

 their own number a special committee to meet and confer with the committees 

 of these States, as well as with the Elgin Board of Trade, the Produce Exchange 

 of Chicago, the Buttermen's Protective Association of St. Louis, and all Socie- 

 ties having for their object and purpose the advancement of dairy interests. 



Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty— and we must lend our every effort 

 to the perfection of a thorough and complete organization. 



Proper, reasonable, and constitutional legislation must first be secured, and 

 the machinery for the enforcement of the laws enacted will then become a 

 question of moment, easily solved if every dairyman is true to his interests- 

 true to himself. 



C. C. Buell, 



J. L. WlTBECK, 



R. Lespinasse, 

 Keport adopted. Committee. 



ON STATE BOARD OP AGRICULTURE. 



The committee appointed to formulate the sentiments of the Association in 

 reference to the action of the State Board of Agriculture in receiving for exhi- 

 bition bogus butter and butterine, so called, would submit the following reso- 

 lutions and recommend their adoption : 



Resolved, That the action of the State Board of Agriculture in relation to 

 the exhibition of bogus butter or butterine, so called, in connection with the 

 Fat Stock and Dairy Fair Show, is received by this Association with mortifica- 

 tion and deep regret. 



Resolved, That this Association, by its past recorded action, and by the 

 many able papers on the adulteration of human food which it has published to 

 the world, both in former years and later, in relation to the manufacture and 

 sale of bogus butter or butterine, so called, as a dairy product, has shown itself 

 an intelligent, earnest and consistent opponent of all fraudulent and deceptive 

 adulterations of human food,, and has acted in the interest of the public health 

 and of honest trade and industry. 



Resolved, That the fraudulent and dishonest practices which have hitherto 

 so largely accompanied and characterized nearly all dealings in bogus butter, so 

 called, the deceptive acts and accompaniments which are essential to success in 

 imposing this fraud upon the public, including the use of false designations and 

 names, originating with true butter and legitimately belonging alone to it; also, 

 including the forcing of bogus butter upon the public for consumption under 

 circumstances in which the public is deceived, and is made powerless to resist, 

 are sufficient reasons both for thorough and efficient legislation to correct the 

 avils complained of, and to enlist the earnest effort of every organization con- 

 nected with the operations of trade and industry to correct the evils threatening 

 :o trade, commerce, industry and the general good. 



