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my early youth, back in Vermont. I remember I was brought up on a dai- 

 ry farm, and that is why I don't like the business, I guess. I also remem- 

 ber when I was about eight or nine years ok! and living on the dairy farm, 

 my father and the hired man were away from home one night. So I de- 

 termined I would bring up the cows to the house as usual, and then con- 

 ceived it would bean excellent idea if I milked the cows, and helped get 

 some of the work out of the w ay. I pitched in with a great deal of enthu- 

 siasm to show my father what I could do. Isucceeded in milking all of 

 those cows before he returned, and was proud of it. But I very soon 

 had cause for regret. It was not very long before I was placed in service 

 and made a regular hand at it, and ever since that time I have not taken 

 any interest in dairying. But there a re these who do take great interest 

 in it, and it is their right that the productions that they make should not 

 be interfered with. That fraud should not be perpetrated upon them 

 by having an article introduced as butter that is not butter. 



On the same principle, we may go back and produce wooden nutmegs. 

 If the people want wooden nutmegs and consume them, that's their bus- 

 iness. It is all right so long as they are nor. deceived. 



I look for the corn growers of Illinois to get up in arms and denounce 

 our pure food law. That is, I would, if the pure food laws were to be in- 

 forced; but since listening to the spech of Kerrick that that is not the 

 case; those laws are made for the purpose of forming commissioners 

 whose object it is not to enforce the laws of the state but to get away with 

 the appropriations and furnish followers for th administration. What 

 a pity it is 'tis true, and a great pity that the administration must have fol- 

 lowers in that way. 



Now only a few days ago I found an institution in a town and in talk- 

 ing with the elevator man, he informed me that he received over three 

 hundred dollars for the cobs that he handled through his elevator the year 

 before. I asked him what became of them. He toM me he shipped them 

 to a certain factory in a neighboring town and I followed it up. He says 

 they go to make up hominy. That is what the corn men will find if the 

 pure feed law should by any chance be enforced, because it would not per- 



