120 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



having its enforcement in charge use every honorable effort to 

 secure the full and complete enforcement of such law, and 



WHEREAS, The State Pure Food Commissioner executing 

 the dairy laws is handicapped by the limited number of Inspectors 

 allowed in this particular department, 



RESOLVED, That the Legislature be asked in the next 

 appropriation to increase the number of Inspectors to twenty, and 

 to not limit the number of these that can be used in enforcing 

 the dairy laws, 



RESOLVED, Appreciating the compliment paid us by the 

 Honorable Dairy Commissioner in appointing Mr. John B. New- 

 man of Elgin as his assistant in charge of the Dairy Department, 

 we reaffirm our confidence in him and will give him our hearty 

 support to the end that the Dairy Laws of the State shall be 

 enforced. 



Animal Diseases. 



WHEREAS, The Illinois State Board of Livestock Com- 

 missioners have been enabled, by public appropriation, to estab- 

 lish at Springfield a laboratory for the study of animal diseases, 

 and under the direction of Honorable Philip Hanner, President 

 of the Board, have secured the services of Dr. A. T. Peters ; 



BE IT RESOLVED, That the Illinois State Dairymen's 

 Association, in annual convention assembled, heartily commend 

 the establishment of this laboratory, and urge upon farmers the 

 fullest possible support of this institution, feeling assured of its 

 usefulness to the farmers of the state in combating the many 

 diseases our stock is subjected to. 



state Appropriations. 



WHEREAS, The Illinois General Assembly appropriated 

 Twenty-five Hundred Dollars per annum for the support of the 

 Illinois State Dairymen's Association in distributing advanced 

 dairy information, and 



WHEREAS, The General Assembly also appropriated 

 Fifteen Thousand Dollars per annum for the support of the 



