#^g ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN S ASSOCIATION. 
Jud°-e Wilcox was in favor of a committee; the laws we 
now have are inoperative, and of no use; had been nullified 
by Supreme Court decisions; should be made safe and secure. 
On motion of Dr. Tefft, a committee of five was appointed 
to draft a bill in accordance with Mr. Boies’ resolution, and 
on motion of Capt. Stewart, it should also be a part of their 
duty to suggest such amendments to the existing law for pre¬ 
venting the aduleration of milk as to make it effectual. 
The chair appointed as such committee, Judge Wilcox, Dr. 
Tefft, G. B. Lord, W. H. Stewart and I. Boies. 
The hour of 10 having arrived, the special order was now 
taken up, when Gr. P. Lord read the following report, which 
was unanimously adopted by the convention: 
To the Members of the Illinois State Dairymen's Association: 
Gentlemen—P ursuant to instructions, your committee have carefully 
examined an article in The Prairie Farmer, of August 7, 1875, m which 
under a title of “ New Departure ’’—the writer notices the failure m the he.it- 
„ nV n k made at Elgin, in June last, under the supervision of Mr. 
1 ® r -, f Rochester N Y., who had advocated that theory of treating 
milkin’his address before the Northwestern Dairymen’s Convention inFeb- 
rUa Your1ommittee have also examined Mr. Arnold’s reply to that article, 
whieh was published in The Prairie Farmer , of August 28, 18m. _ 
Your committee would state that they are informed that the experiment 
. v c milk at the Elgin Butter factory, referred to in these articles, was 
of heating knowle L e of the Elgin Dairymen’s Association ; that they 
were^ot parties to it; that it was a private arrangement between the parties. 
1 flint the experiment and the report of the failure was a mattei with 
aT } >h the dairymen of the West had nothing to do, and your committee can 
which the dairyh ^ ld in his rep i y , sho uld have made statements 
that arehable to injure the dairy interests both of the East and °f the West. 
Your committee find that Mr. Arnold, in his address before the North¬ 
western Dairymen’s Convention, in February, 18m, after advocating is 
heorv for heating milk, stated that “ when milk is in all respects sound and 
ricrht that it is better to let it alone than to tamper with it, [See printed 
rpr*nrt of N W. Dairymen’s Convention, page 2o.J _, 
P Tn the articles published in The Prairie Farmer, before referred to, Mr. 
Arnold notices two experiments in the heating of milk by which he proposes 
to test the qualities of Eastern and Western milk-one in Elgin, the other 
901 ^n'thelxpertineiU at Elgin “287 gallons of milk, treated by Mr. Wanzer 
in ^tuafmXd produced sixty pounds of butter. The milk was then 
