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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 37 
The discussion of Topic No. 8 was again resumed. 
I. Boies thought skimming a poor practice; said skimmed 
cheese was to full-cream cheese what stump-tail currency was 
to sound currency; the practice ought to be prevented by stat¬ 
ute provision; should not split the milk; food from sour 
milk was good; skimmed cheese was not good; we ought to 
petition the Legislature to pass a law compelling makers to 
brand their cheese, on the bandage, as to the true article; the 
petition should start from Elgin, this being the head center 
of the dairy interest of the State. 
G. E. Morrow said Ohio stood at the head as a skimmer, 
and had suffered thereby; Illinois is probably worse than 
Wisconsin; Sheboygan county was No. 1 in Wisconsin; no 
no county was so uniform in their make and quality; could 
be recognized at sight, owing to uniformity; Illinois is getting 
the name of doing a great deal of skimming, and it will ulti¬ 
mately do us much damage. 
Judge Wilcox offered the following resolution, which was 
adopted unanimously: 
Resolved , That the making of skimmed or partly-skimmed milk into 
cheese is detrimental to the dairy business. It tempts and facilitates cheat¬ 
ing, makes it practicable for the dishonest to sell, as good, an inferior arti¬ 
cle of cheese, and thus impose upon the consumer. This impairs confidence 
in all cheese manufactured in the region where the skimmed-milk cheese is 
made, damages the reputation, diminishes its consumption, lessens its sala¬ 
bility, depresses the market price, and results in the end in loss to the milk 
producer and cheese manufacturer. Therefore, it is the judgment of this 
convention, that the best interests of the dairy business of this State demand 
that making skimmed-milk cheese should be discontinued, and full-cream 
cheese only should be made. 
Israel Boies offered the following resolution, which was 
(tarried: 
Resolved, That we petition our Legislature to pass a law requiring manu¬ 
facturers to brand all cheese made, so as to indicate whether skimmed, part¬ 
ly-skimmed, or full-cream; brand to be on the bandage and with indelible 
ink, also the name of the maker to be stamped on the cheese. 
G. E. Morrow suggested that a committee be appointed to 
prepare a bill in accordance with the above. 
