ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 153 



years ago we see that great changes have taken place in Illinois, 

 over four hundred creameries and two hundred cheese factories 

 have been built. 



In the year 1905 — just past — we had over 1,700,000 milk 

 cows, one thonsand creameries, twenty condensers and, accord- 

 ing to the latest estimate, her seventeen hundred thousand cows 

 brought in nearly sixty millions of dollars. This increase in the 

 dairy industry of the state requires legislation for the regulation 

 of the production, manufacture and sale of dairy products, and 

 today the laws of the state, regulating the dairy interests of the 

 state, are inadequate and many of them inoperative and are out 

 of date, owing to the great advance made along all lines of the 

 dairy industry of the state. 



Uniformity in dairy and food laws in the different states 

 would be very desirable; we are constantly annoyed by finding 

 spurious goods throughout the state, and in many case the} are 

 labeled "pure" — the merchant has purchased them as "pure." In 

 such cases it would be unjust to punish the merchant, and the 

 wholesaler, in many cases, are located in another state and cannot 

 be reached. All due credit to the interstate commerce law, but it 

 greatly interferes with our work, as any one has a perfect right 

 to ship from one state to another any and all goods ; thus we have 

 no control of our manufactures or jobbers; we may go to their 

 place of business and find goods that are adulterated, and if ques- 

 tioned regarding them, they have a ready reply that they are for 

 export trade, probably Indiana or Missouri. There are so many 

 wholesale manufacturing and jobbing houses doing business that 

 it would require an army of inspectors on each side of the state 

 to keep out all goods that do not comply with the State Food law. 



If all the states had uniform laws we would not be imposed 

 upon to such an extent, but consider Missouri on the west with- 

 out a Pure Food Commission, or an adequate food law, 

 and St. Louis, the largest manufacturing city of poor goods ; it 

 is not surprising that some of it finds its way iuto Illinois. It 

 seems to me that the states not having a "pure food law," must 

 necessarily be the dumping ground for all spurious goods. 



