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that has given me so much pleasure. I wish each and every oik 

 of you would write to 1623 Manhattan building and get a copy of 

 the next report and see what has been accomplished by the Com- 

 missioners the last year. 



We took 5,000 samples of milk in all the principal towns of 

 this state, and with the exception of the months of June, July, 

 August and September, we have had a splendid quality of milk, 

 but during those months in the larger cities some of the dairymen 

 used formaldhyd. We found* them trying to keep milk sweet 

 and preserve milk. You want to put this fellow behind. "Get 

 behind me, Satan," for it is nothing but formaldahyd, but some 

 dread preservative, to doctor the milk and liable to kill the baby 

 and ruin the stomach of those who are weak and infirm. This 

 product of nature we want to preserve, but free from danger. 



It is a great pleasure to meet this intelligent gathering of 

 dairymen, gathered here from all parts of our great state on the 

 31st anniversary of the Illinois State Dairymen's Association. 



Your attendance in such numbers, from all sections of the 

 state, attests your zeal as well as your deep and growing interest 

 in an organization having for its prime object the assistance and 

 encouragement of useful education and object lessons among the 

 dairymen of our state as well as the dairy resources of the state. 



The city of Effingham is in one of the counties in Illinois 

 where dairying should be fostered — the soil and climate in and 

 around this beautiful city is peculiarly adapted to dairying and 

 here is where dairying should be encouraged and fostered — in no 

 other part of the state can developments and growth of the dairy 

 interests do so much for its people as it can here in Effingham 

 county. For this reason more especially is it fit and proper that 

 this Association should meet here on this its 31st anniversary. 



As State Food Commissioner of Illinois, I have had occas- 

 ion to look up the dairy conditions of Illinois, and compare them 

 with the dairy conditions of our sister states, and I am proud of 

 Illinois, as by comparison she looms up and takes a first rank 

 among them all as a dairy state — and comparing today with six 



