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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRIMEN’s ASSOCIATION. 
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butterine. We have seen of this butter that contained 66 
parts of hogs lard or other grease, leaving but a small 
part of the original butter in the compound, and yet we 
are informed that this manufactured suine has been put 
upon the market, and sold to unsuspecting purchasers as 
fine creamery butter and at full price of that article. As we 
are passing on you will please allow us to cast a thought at 
oleomargarine, a substance made by churning milk, cream 
or butter-milk with tallow oil, refuse grease, and some 
other admixture. We have been informed that recently 
the use of oleomargarine has been condemned by the 
French government as unwholesome food for Frenchmen 
to eat, although of French origin. 
We cannot consent to pass this subject without giving 
you a hint on the adulteration of cheese. The great 
desire to make much out of little or nothing, has induced 
some of the factorymen of our country to experiment in the 
v f( x ^ use of foreign substances in the process of cheese making. 
First came a mixture of b uture with cheese, next oleomar¬ 
garine put in its appearance and so also did hogs’ lard and 
deodorized grease, and lastly, or more recently, anti¬ 
mottling and anti-huffing compounds raise their hydra heads 
and make their mark wherever they go. We are forced 
to believe that the active principles of those last named 
compounds consist of carbonate, or caustic soda and 
potash. It would appear to a careful observer that some, 
yea, many, who inhabit this continent, (saying nothing of 
others) believe the human stomach of the American people 
to be made of cast iron and lined with antediluvian case- 
hardened copper, judging from the amount of adulterated 
food found on the markets of our country. We have, in¬ 
vited your attention to this subject, not because we wish to 
agitate this question to the injury of the honest manu¬ 
facturer of any product or food for the human family, 
but solely for the purpose of provoking some action of 
this convention looking towards some legal enactments by 
the powers that be to protect the honest people of the 
United States from this slow, painful, yet sure slaughter of 
human beings by the wholesale adulteration of their food 
and medicine. The time has come when the people, yea, 
the whole people of our country, should rise in their might 
and proclaim their determination to have some important 
