228 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



products within bounds and if there is a lot of fuss and folderoi 

 in the business that is unnecessary, we should know it. 



We should be strict on the essentials necessary to produce 

 wholesome dairy products, but we should not be hampered by 

 foolishness and rules and regulations that are made by those 

 who know little or nothing of the practical side of the great in- 

 dustry, which is at the foundation of a prosperous agriculture. 



We have on this program experts who will deal with the 

 leading questions that are now affecting the dairy interests and 

 we hope that we will have the support not only of the consum- 

 ers of dairy products, but those who are the disseminators of 

 public opinion. We hope to show our appreciation of those who 

 assist us in building up, and our condemnation of those who ma- 

 liciously tear down. 



We believe this convention should work out and fix a stand- 

 ard of sanitary requirements for creameries and cream buying 

 stations, the absolute essentials in one class and the non-essen- 

 tials to desirable requisites in the second class. We believe also 

 that standardization of sanitary requirements of dairy farms 

 should be outlined in the same way. We believe further that a 

 joint effort should be made by the national and state govern- 

 ments on a basis of reimbursement of those whose cattle are 

 slaughtered for disease and that this convention should express 

 its opinion on the question of pasteurization. 



Whether we shall have an expensive federal inspection of 

 creameries which would reach only interstate shipments or 

 whether an adequate state inspection shall be supported or 

 whether it would be wiser to have a modification of both by 

 having the National Department of Agriculture, together with 

 a board of practical experts on dairying approve the work of the 

 respective states if satisfactory, is a question that should be de- 

 termined by this convention. 



