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gave the report out to Congressman Linthicum and others they 

 did so unquahfied by any statement that it did not reflect condi- 

 tions on behalf of the State of IlHnois. We resented the infer- 

 ence that it did reflect conditions in IlUnois, and had the actual 

 proof. We told them that we were surprised and amazed thati 

 this dairy division, as the parent division in creamery sanitation 

 and upbuilding should come into a dairy state without calling up 

 the Dairy Commissioner, without offering to or asking for co- 

 operation, make an inspection of conditions, file a report at 

 Washington without giving us any hint of their ideas of condi- 

 tions. After the report was compiled it was printed without 

 sending us a copy or calling our attention to it. That is not co- 

 operation in any sense of the word. Had the inspectors for the 

 Dairy Division come to the Food and Dairy Department of Illi- 

 nois we would have been glad first to have called their attention* 

 to what we considered our poorest creameries, recommended that 

 they be the ones inspected; would have sent one or two' inspectors 

 with them — I would have been glad to have gone myself; and 

 with the Federal and State Departments co-operating we not 

 only would have made an impression upon these poorer cream- 

 eries, but they would have been acquainted with our ideas of 

 sanitation and we with theirs. I am satisfied had they done this 

 in any state, not alone our state, that before they had gone very 

 far they would have been convinced that they were working on 

 an entirely inadequate card for the purpose for which they were 

 in the field. If there had been any good points in their card, we 

 would have been glad to have copied them, and they would have 

 been just as willing to copy the good points in our card. 



"I have been unable as yet to find any possible excuse for 

 this failure not only to co-operate at first, but to refuse to sub- 

 mit to our state department a report of the creameries in Illinois 

 that they inspected, if they did inspect any Illinois creameries. 

 I assume that they did because we consider ourselves one of the 

 nine central dairy states. 



Mr. Newman assured them that the Illinois Food Depart- 

 ment had not been asleep, and told them of what we were doing 

 here in the way of sanitation ; told them the stand of the Illinoie 



