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Dairymen's Association, and what I know has been done within 

 the past six years during the time I have been State Food Com- 

 missioner and connected with this Association in trying to build 

 up the dairy interests of this great state, I say, when we take into 

 consideration these things, we can be proud of the work that the 

 State Dairymen's Association has done and is still doing. 



I had a talk some time ago with Governor Deneen in regard 

 to the matter, and he thought he could be here in person and 

 address this audience and tell them of his sympathy and his views 

 since his advent into the office of Governor of this great state, and 

 had tried to assist the dairymen in every way possible about the 

 work of building up the dairy interests of the state. 



When we take into consideration Illinois as she is, 400 miles 

 long north and south, an average breadth 250 miles east and west, 

 with not an acre but interested in the dairy business. And then 

 take into consideration, my citizens, the states represented here 

 tonight of Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa and the pleasure we 

 have had in listening from them. They have told us of the silo, 

 what nature has done for them, and we have heard from Illinois 

 and what has been done there. So, my friend Shilling, these 

 gentlemen here, Mr. Lillie, in order to build up their state, have 

 gone into dairying. Illinois, naturally, is a dairy state, and I take 

 pleasure in working here in this great state of ours to see what 

 has been clone by the dairy. 



Isn't it true, that we have not done as well in southern Illin- 

 ois as up in northern Illinois. If we had got a Newman, a Gurler 

 and men of that type who head this Association, and for the past 

 six years before that, we mifiht today have been in the front rank 

 of the galaxy as dairymen in this great state. 



Illinois is in the front. When the Secretary of this Asso- 

 ciation invited me to address them, he said about 15 or 20 minutes 

 — 25 or 30 minutes — I would like to talk a week, so you know 

 what's coming, and for fear I would, have written down what I 

 shall say. I have put in all my time enforcing the dairy and food 

 laws of Illinois. There is nothing that ever engaged my time 



