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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



the members of the legislature who support the bill and Gov. Tanner^ 

 who signed the measure, deserve the thanks of dairymen. 



The bill is here given, together with the dairy laws' of Illinois'. 



DAIRY LAWS OF ILLINOIS. 



Laws of 1879, page 111. (Kurd's Revised Statutes, chapter 38, sections- 

 9-9e. 



AN ACT to regulate the sale of milk, and to provide penalties for the adul- 

 teration thereof. (Approved May 29, 1879.) 



Section 1. That whoever shall, for the purpose of sale for human 

 food, adulterate milk with water or any foreign substance, or whoever 

 shall knowingly sell for human food, milk from which cream has been 

 taken, without the purchaser being informed or knowing the fact, or 

 whoever shall knowingly sell for human food, milk from which what is 

 commonly called "strippings" has been withheld, without the purchaser 

 thereof being informed or knowing the fact, or whoever shall knowingly 

 sell for human food milk drawn from a diseased cow, knowing her ta 

 be so diseased as to render her milk unwholesome, or whoever shall know- 

 ingly sell for human food, milk so tainted or corrupted as to be unwhole- 

 some, or whoever shall knowingly supply, or bring to be manufactured 

 into any substance for human food, to any cheese or butter factory or 

 creamery, without all interested therein knowing or being informed of the 

 fact, milk which is adulterated with water or any foreign substance, or 

 milk from which cream has been taken, or milk from which what is com- 

 monly called "strippings" has been withheld, or milk drawn from a dis- 

 eased cow, knowing her to be so diseased as to injure her milk, or milk 

 so tainted or corrupted as to be unwholesome, or whoever shall know- 

 ingly, with intent to defraud, take from milk after it has been delivered 

 to a cheese factory, or butter factory or creamery, to be manufactured 

 into any substance for hujnan food, for or on account of the person sup- 

 plying the milk or cream, qr shall, with like intent, knowingly add any 

 foreign substance to the milk or cream, whereby it, or the products there- 

 of, shall become unwholesome for human food, shall be guilty of a mis- 



