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some other creamery that he thinks is not grading — that is not 

 fair nor right. I am ashamed of any farmer that will do that. 

 There is no use coming to meetings and have people talk to you 

 and then go out and practice things of that kind. That's not 

 right, and we ought to stand for what is right. We ought to 

 stand for the things that are safe, the things that are going to 

 get us somewhere as a result of all this propaganda and we 

 bespeak of you people the co-operation that it should receive 

 at your hands. We are going to stick to this thing. W^e are 

 going to have cream grading a fact in this state and we want 

 every creameryn)an to stencil his butter "Made from Graded 

 Cream." 



I was asked to gather some data and report to the Depart- 

 ment the proportion of pasteurized butter made in this state and 

 postal cards were sent out asking the amount of butter made 

 from cream that was pasteurized, and I am glad to be able to 

 report that less than 7 per cent of Illinois butter is unpasteurized 

 and that over 93 per cent is pasturized. The actual figures are 

 93.18 pasteurized and 6.82 unpasteurized, and further than that 

 the 6.82 per cent of butter unpasteurized is made in the small 

 communities and consumed at home, and less than i per cent of 

 the unpasteurized butter leaves the boundaries of Illinois. (Ap- 

 plause.) We are making a special effort to get the few (feu- 

 lows who do not pasteurize to do so, so that we will be able to 

 say that of the entire output there is not a single pound of but- 

 ter from unpasteurized milk that will leave the State of Illinois. 



The creamerymen have missed their opportunity, they have 

 not taken advantage of that fact, they did not label their but-, 

 ter "Made from Pasteurized Graded Cream," first or second 

 grade as the case may be. You want to do those things. We| 

 will protect you. We are going to prosecute every farmer that 

 offers illegal cream for sale. If you take it away from one 

 creamery and take it to another, we will try to prosecute you 

 to the limit of the law. Thi^ lack of co-operation on cream 

 grading, we are serious about. It is your fault, it is not the fault 

 of the officials, and the majority of the creamery fellows in this 

 state have met month after month and spent their money and 



