122 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Oleomargarine Law. 



WHEREAS, There is an active campaign on the way in 

 Congress to amend the Grout law by reducing a ten cent per 

 pound tax on oleomargarine and butterine colored in imitation 

 of butter, and the one-quarter a cent per pound tax on uncolored 

 oleomargarine and butterine, and 



WHEREAS, Such tax is necessary for the protection of 

 legitimate dairy and creamery butter against fraud and deceit, 

 and the unjust competition of bogus butter; 



BE IT RESOLVED, By the Illinois State Dairymen's As- 

 sociation, in annual convention assembled, that all efforts being 

 made in or out of Congress to reduce the tax on oleomargarine 

 and butterine be condemned and that the representatives of Illi- 

 nois in the House of Representatives at Washington and the 

 Senators in the United States Senate be urged to use all honor- 

 able means to defeat any and every attempt to appeal or abridge 

 the Grout law. 



state Fair Exhibits. 



WHEREAS, Superintendent A. N. Auten and Assistant 

 Superintendent C. Gilkerson have been enabled to make changes 

 in the Dairy Department at the State Fair that have increased the 

 usefulness of exhibits to spectators and the general educational 

 value of the show ; 



BE IT RESOLVED, That the thanks of this Association 

 in annual convention assembled, be extended to the Illinois State 

 Board of Agriculture, and that every effort be made to aid 

 Superintendent Auten and Assistant Superintendent Gilkerson 

 in their efforts to raise the standard of the Dairy Exhibit at the 

 State Fair in quality and quantity, and furthermore that dairy- 

 men, creamery men and cheese makers be urged to support the 

 show by making entries of their products. 



Cow Testing Associations. 



WHEREAS, At least twenty-five per cent of the dairy cows 

 in Illinois are naturally unsuited to become profitable producers 

 of dairy products, and are fed at a loss, and 



