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a necessity, and few people care to eat a meal without it, and 

 it is this that has continually increased its consumption in 

 spite of all the abominations of its kind. 



There are but very few who consider cheese a necessity. 

 If a man buys poor butter he doesn't cease to be a consumer: 

 he simply tries again, because he must have it. With cheese 

 it is different. 



The consumer asks, Have you any good cheese? If he 

 answers, yes sir, cut me off three to ten pounds is the answer. 

 If he answers fair or very good, he then tries it, and saj^s, cut 

 me off a small piece; a pound will do. We don't eat much 

 cheese; wife looks at it and tastes it and says never mind 

 about getting any more cheese, we can't eat it. That must 

 be skim or filled. This is certainly one great reason there 

 hasn't been more full cream cheese made in Illinois. We have 

 lost our market trying to deceive the people with bogus stuff. 



Now, there is no doubt but that the consumption of cheese 

 can be greatly increased by making good full cream cheese, 

 and compelling the sale of all other, such as skim or filled 

 cheese to be made or marked in such a manner that the con- 

 sumer will know just what he is buying. If a man wants 

 skim cheese, let him have it. If some markets demand such, 

 all right. We won't object; but the man that wants the best 

 and calls for it, he should have it and the time is near when 

 he will get it and know it is full cream cheese and made in 

 Illinois, some of it. 



Mr. Gurler, the presiding officer, called to the Chair the 

 newly elected Vice President, Mr. Judd. 



Mr. Judd: I do not think any introduction is necessary. 

 I assure you I am not an off-hand speaker; I am simply an 

 every day farmer like the rest of you, and I thank you all 

 for the hearty manner in which you have complimented me 

 by making me Vice President of this Association, and I am in 

 hopes that we can, by united effort, and by working in the 

 younger element of this State, raise this Association to a great 

 deal better position than it is occupying at present. I do 

 not wish to cast any reflections upon the position it occupies 

 or has occupied. A thing of this kind is a growth from start 

 to finish, and while the circumstances may have been such in 

 the past that it has not prospered with the success that we 



