1 68 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Thursday Morning, January llth, 1900 



Announcement made by Mrs. Springer: 



Ladies and Gentlemen and Dairymen: I wish on behalf of the Sau.- 

 ;^amon county farmers and the Ladies' Butter Association to extend to 

 :you an invitation to hold your next meeting in Springfield. And I don't 

 'think there will be any trouble whatever in our meeting with any 

 'demands that your association wishes, and I think Mr. Hostetter will 

 "bear me out in that. 



Mr. Sawyer: I move that we extend our thanks to this organization 

 and to Mrs. Springer, and that the matter be referred to the executive 

 ccommittee. Carried. 



Committee on Nominations: J. H. Coolidge, Galesburg; J. R. Bid- 

 tiulph, Providence; H. H. Hopkins^ Hinckley; L. S. Dorsey, Moro; Geo. 

 Reed, Belvidere. 



Proposed 10 Cent Tax on Colored ©leo* 



margarine 



W. S. MOORE, CHICAGO. 



The oleomargarine question has been so thoroughly discussed, directly 

 siTid indirectly on this platform, that I hardly think it necessary to go 

 ^very far into it, and owing to the change in the conditions, I have not 

 3>repared any regular paper on this subject. 



About a year ago the National Dairy Union in casting about for means 

 ^o control the increase of oleomargarine, struck upon the idea of having 

 a tax of ten cents per pound imposed on oleomargarine colored like 

 .^butter. With this in view, they started a fund, knowing it could only 



