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mit a thing of that kind, and would be doing away with some values to the 

 com crop. Here this one elevator had sold $300 worth of corn cobs to go 

 to make up a production to deceive the dairymen of Illinois or some other 

 state — a fraud was perpetrated. It was not claimed there was any special 

 value in corn cobs, it simply goes in there to make up the bulk and de- 

 cieva some one. It ought to be stopped. Corn cobs are all right in their 

 place. If I go and buy corn cobs and fed them I know what I am doing. 

 I do that very thing, I grind my corn cobs, but I am not deceived by it, I 

 know what I am doing. And it is all right if I want to buy corn cobs, 

 but buy hominy with bran to feed to stock, I want to know which is good 

 and which is not. That is not the only instance. 



Not long ago in talking with a gentleman about feed grinders he in- 

 formed me that he had sold eight to one mill down in Egypt, and was sur- 

 prised that one mill should need so many. They are grinding corn cobs 

 with them, for the purpose of adulterating bran. Another man in South- 

 ern Illinois was shipping in corn cobs from Nebraska by the train load 

 for the same purpose. And here we have a commission in Illinois for the 

 purpose of stopping those things. 



And this is why this Grout bill as it is called is now the absorbing topic 

 amcng dairymen. It is for just sucii examples and the principle is the 

 same. I am in favor of that bill because it will tend to stop deceit and 

 fraud. And I am in favor of the pure food bill, if they will do what it is 

 intended to do, and expected to do by those who make them. 



By the President: — Now we will listen for five minutes* to our friend 

 Cobb. 



BY MR. COBB. 



Ladies and Gentlemen: — What Mr. Grout has said regarding this 

 bill, I hardly agree with him on all he said. While I am in favor of stop- 

 ping fraud in feeding us poor milk when we come to these conventions, 



