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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



tions. What shall we feed and what shall we buy? We buy nearly all the 

 ground feeds we use. Our rule is tc ascertain the protein, and by feed- 

 ing the number of pounds and thire per hundred we know the protein 

 and that is what we are after. We are long on carbohydrates in the 

 State of Illinois but short on protein. The protein in oats runs from 18 

 to 25c per lb. the protein in cotton seed meal is about 5c a lb., and all along 

 the line you will find that a ration can be compounded by the by-products 

 of the milk through the country and make a profit on the feed we are 

 are giving to our cows. 



The Grout billthat is before the Senate, I don't wish it to make our 

 dairy products any more expensive, that is not my idea of the benefits 

 to be derived from the Grout Bill, but it will be largely in favor of the 

 consumer. There is no doubt but what prices the manufacturers are re- 

 ceiving from the oleo product is larger a good deal that the dairymen are 

 receiving. While I don't wish the dairy product to be any higher, I do 

 wish to have the consumer to get good butter and all he wants, even 

 when butter is a reasonable price. There is not enough good butter to 

 go around and I hope of a resolution isi presented there it will be ac- 

 cepted. 



By the President: — I want to say a word myself about this Grout 

 Bill in which we are so deeply interested. 



I know you people who are la rgely from the agricultural districts 

 have no idea that it is sold for what it is, because your store keepers are 

 honest and tell the truth about it. But it is, not so in the larger cities. 

 We sent out in Chicago and bought 84 pounds of butter from 84 different 

 stores. They asked for butter and paid for butter. It was all sent! to 

 the chemists to be analyzed and 6f« out of the 84 pounds was butterine, 

 unmarked and unlabeled, and that is where the fraud comes in and what 

 we are asking to be protected against. 



The gentleman who spoke to you last night, from Champaign, tele- 

 phoned his grocer to send some butter. He knew the difference between 

 them, and when it was sent he found out it was not butter. He tele- 



