18 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



call on you for support in any way, act promptly and show them 

 Illinois dairymen can be relied on. The Pure Stock Food Bill, 

 which your committee sent to the legislature, was passed and 

 is now a law to be enforced by the pure food commission. We 

 received assistance from this department and much help from 

 the State Farmers' Institute. The Pure Food Bill did not meet 

 with approval and did not pass, although much time and work 

 •was put on it. A general pure food law is now before congress 

 and should it pass many of the abuses aimed at in our state 

 law will be effectively remedied. We shall hope to hear from 

 Hon. A. H. Jones, the commissioner who is on the program, to 

 tell us more directly about these matters, and we hope he will 

 be able to tell us who the new assistant will be, as according to the 

 law he must be a dairyman. We have waited patiently on this 

 change being made and hope he will relieve the suspense. 



Our Program. 



Your directors tried to cover the important features in 

 dairying, and while we were unable to secure the services of some 

 of the leaders, we have a very full program and by giving the 

 speakers close attention and by bringing out the discussion after 

 each paper, you can make this a very helpful and useful meeting. 

 We have met annually all these thirty-two years to deliver 

 addresses, read papers, discuss topics, examine dairy products 

 and machinery and become better acquainted. Nowhere are 

 offered better opportunities to exchange experiences and ideas, 

 or, to learn much that is new and helpful. We aim to give you 

 talks from the best talent in the State and Nation. That these 

 meetings have been productive of good, there is no doubt — the 

 added interest every year proves it. In talking with many who 

 " never speak in meeting," I find they are full of valuable infor- 

 mation, having experimented with ideas advanced by others, and 

 it can only be brought out by discussion. In ending my fifth 

 year of service as President, I wish to thank my friends for the 

 honor conferred upon me. While I have not been able to give the 

 time to it that a President should, I have done what I could 



