394 ILDTNOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



the injury done the whole dairy industry by the sale of oleo. 

 The price of butter affects the price of the raw product whether 

 shipped to the city or sent to the factory for manufacture into 

 butter, or made into butter on the farm. 



Now, with these forces combined, it seems that we ought to 

 be able to be strong enough and forceful enough to secure from 

 our legislators such laws that will protect both the producers, 

 manufacturers, and consumers; and it will enable them all 

 along the line to have the benefit of the pure rather than the 

 imitation article. 



Another need of the dairy farmer is thorough inspection of 

 the herds, so that the buyers of both the raw product and of 

 the butter and cheese will be certain that he is not being im- 

 posed upon by impure or unwholesome products, although ii: 

 may be pure as far as adulteration is concerned. Another 

 thing along that same line is inspection regarding cleanliness, 

 both at the farm and at the factory. Mankind is prone to do 

 as little as possible, and where the producers of milk are not 

 compelled to take the very best care of the raw product, or 

 the factoryman is not compelled to keep his premises clean 

 and in the very best condition, they will do the other thing and 

 let things go to waste; and instead of making an article that 

 will always command top prices, their product will be classed 

 down even to the grade of grease, and a little inspection alon^ 

 that line, with some means of enforcing the recommendations 

 that might be made by a thoroughly expert inspector, would 

 advance the dairy industry of the State of Illinois much more 

 than any one who had not given the subject thought could un- 

 derstand. 



We see all around us in the various States, dairy schools 

 and experiment stations working along the lines of best dairy 

 practice, and Illinois lags behind; not because we are not 

 abundantly able to have all of these facilities, but because our 

 dairymen have not seen to it that the men who represent them 

 are in sympathy with the workers in this particular branch, 

 and in fact are not in sympathy with the workers in any 

 branch of agricultural industry. The authorities of the Uni- 

 versity and Experiment Station at Urbana are ready and will- 

 ing to assist in this matter to the extent of their ability. They 



