ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. i j 



The State of Illinois will be on an even footing with, her sister States 

 in the line of Agricultural and Dairy buildings and, I trust, in men of 

 brains to conduct them. 



The time will soon come when our young men will not have to go 

 abroad to attend dairy schools, as they have had to do in the past; Illi- 

 nois will have as good facilities for educating our young men as the 

 country affords. 



The year just closed has been a prosperous one; not in the history of 

 this country has there ever been such a revolution in every line of busi- 

 ness. We have opened, up new channels for our goods in all branches of 

 our industries. 



What was the cause of the low price of milk for the two years prev- 

 ious to last year? The reason was, because butterine or bogus butter 

 had taken the place of pure butter, and to such an extent was this true, 

 that the price of milk was driven down and dairymen claimed' there was 

 no money in milking cows, and as a result they have sold them for beef 

 or let their calves run with them. They have now awakened from their 

 lethargy to find that cows are high, butter is a good price, and milk is 

 scarce. 



The National Dairy Union is doing good work throughout the en- 

 tire country in collecting funds to defray the expenses of getting na- 

 tional legislation on colored butterine. Ten thousand dollars seems a 

 large sum of money to ask for or expect to raise by the dairymen. 



The matter has been put before the public in such a clear light that 

 the amount has been raised or guaranteed; now an effort will be made 

 to get national legislation of ten cents per pound on colored butterine, 

 as I understand, to reduce the tax on uncoiored butterine tO' one quarter 

 of a cent. ) 



The butterine men are lining up their forces; it wilii be a fight to the 

 finish; should we be defeated in getting a bill passed, we must renew the 

 attack and keep up a centinuous fight, else the dairy business of this 

 country will be ruined. 



