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institutes each year on educational lines. Their next meeting is 

 to be held January 22nd in Chicago, to which I have received an 

 invitation. We cordially welcome this new force in dairy edu- 

 cation and should aid it in every way possible, and I would sug- 

 gest that you instruct your officials to offer to print their pro- 

 ceedings in our annual report. I would also suggest that a com- 

 mittee be appointed to inquire into the advisability of forming 

 an Illinois Buttermakers' Association as another arm to this cen- 

 tral organization. 



Pure Unadulterated Food. 



We are very much interested in this subject, especially in 

 that part referring to dairy products and imitations thereof ; not 

 so much in their manufacture as in their sale and for pure dairy 

 products. The prices received for milk the past two years, 

 which has been so satisfactory to the Dairymen, can be traced to 

 the passage of the oleo bill by the national law makers, but, my 

 friends, you must not rest on this, but push on, assisting all 

 efforts for pure food, being very particular to see the different 

 articles must be labled plainly just what they are and what they 

 contain. The purchaser has a perfect right to know this. When 

 we go to a store and buy a pound of butter we have a right to 

 knew whether the article is pure butter made wholly from cow's 

 cream, or a concoction of different fats, colored to resembled 

 butter. I am pleased to see from different reports the revenue 

 collectors are on the alert and many have been the convictions 

 of persons engaged in this nefarious traffic, both wholesale and 

 retail. Generally, the retailer is the one caught. It is quite 

 different dealing with this question in the United States court to 

 that in the justice courts and I would warn retailers here and 

 everywhere that they do not get off with a $10.00 or $25.00 fine, 

 but it is $200.00 to $500.00, and imprisonment also. The con- 

 victions in Chicago and Pennsylvania lately have clone much 

 to curtail the make of " colored oleo," and steady the market for 

 your products, hence, stand by the National Dairy Union, who 

 are our sentinels watching the enemy's moves, and whenever they 



