154 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



The educational feature of the dairy and food department 

 greatly facilitates our work, where there is one merchant who 

 desires to handle spurious goods there are a hundred who desire 

 to deal in nothing but pure goods, and all that is necessary is to 

 inform them of good and poor grades of goods in the market, and 

 I assure you they will choose the best. 



This work is done largely by the inspectors, who pick up all 

 brands of goods not known by them to be either good or bad, 

 which are sent to the state food headquarters, 1623 Manhattan 

 building, Chicago, 111., for analysis, the result of which is reported 

 both to the inspector and for the merchant from whom the sam- 

 ple is taken, either in a bulletin or annual report. The analysis 

 may also be published in the daily press, food journals and mag- 

 azines, which are for the benefit of the merchants as well as the 

 consumers of the various food products. 



There is nothing the producer, manufacturer and jobber of 

 spurious food products dreads so much as publicity. Our expe- 

 rience along this line has been satisfactory. If the goods do not 

 comply with the law, and the merchant is informed of the fact 

 he, as a rule, returns them to the wholesale dealer or labels them 

 according to law. 



Formerly great losses were sustained by creamery patrons 

 on account of inefficient buttermakers and poor milk, which were 

 in a great measure remedied by a system of field instruction.. But 

 notwithstanding all these difficulties, Illinois has gradually forged 

 to the front, and leads all other states in the production, manufac- 

 ture and sale of dairy products. 



It is hardly necessary for me to state that Illinois stands at 

 the head of all other states of the union in the production, manu- 

 facture and sale of dairy products. Her broad, fertile prairies, 

 in the northern and central part of the state, her hills and valleys, 

 in the southern part, are alike conducive to this industry. We 

 are apt to forget, as Illinoisans, when we eulogize and speak in 

 praise of her wonderful growth in agriculture, commerce, popu- 

 lation, education, wealth and all that goes to make a state great 



