ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN S ASSOCIATION. 39 



tion of Illinois, of which Mr. De Witt Smith, the president of 

 the Cattle Growers' Association of the United States, is the 

 great shining light, put on record, a resolution still fiercer than 

 this, coming roughshod upon the Illinois State Board of Agri- 

 culture, almost as much as saying: "We will put the knife into 

 you and you will admit oleomargarine into that building and into 

 that dairy show." For, let it be understood that there was a fat 

 stock show going on in the exposition building, there was also 

 the third annual dairy show, and at that dairy show the Illinois 

 State Dairymen's Association had been asked to take part, and 

 not only take part, but to use their influence all over the United 

 States for the purpose of getting the assistance of dairymen of 

 the country in making that National Dairy Show really and 

 truly a national dairy institution. I speak knowingly, for ap- 

 plication was made by a member of the Illinois State Board of 

 Agriculture to the Illinois State Dairymen's Association at a 

 meeting of their board of directors, and the board of directors 

 ordered your secretary to issue five thousand letters to the 

 dairymen of the United States asking them to join hands with 

 us and go to the dairy show in the city of Chicago on the 8th 

 day of last November. Not only this, gentlemen, but the State 

 Board of Agriculture made a statement to the Illinois State 

 Dairymen's Association that no oleomargarine or butterine 

 would be admitted to the dairy exhibit. 



A genuine dairy show they were determined to have in spite 

 of all the oleomargarine and butterine in the country. Those 

 are facts and doubtless no departure from this resolve would 

 have taken place but for this action of the Cattle Grower's As- 

 sociation, this action of the Sangamon County Association, the 

 action of a few stock yards representatives and the president 

 of the Chicago board of trade, (this great speculating institution 

 of our western country so severe on bucket shops; but, oh, so 

 solid on oleomargarine,) who threatened to refuse paying the 

 subscriptions they had put their names down for, unless oleo- 

 margarine and butterine were admitted in the building. That 

 is how butterine and oleomargarine finally crowded into the fat 



