12 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
change brought about on this subject. A subject of vastly 
more importance to all, than has been before the American 
people for the last decade. 
Under the present existing state of things, would it not 
be eminently proper for every manufacturer to put upon 
the package containing his goods his name and place of 
business? While possibly it might not be of use. to him, 
still we fail to see wherein it would be likely to injure him, 
if he is an honest man and produces an honest commercial 
article. We can but see that in course of time it would 
redound largely to his benefit. An honest reputation in 
.any business is the best stock that a man can put in tiade. 
If rightly nurtured and cared for, it will stand by him when 
dollars and cents have fleeted away and are gone. Now 
while life might not wish to detract in the least from the 
old adage that an honest man is the noblest work of God, 
we would most emphatically say that an honest man is the 
noblest work of his own nature or conscience. 
He has it in his power to so conduct himself as to be 
honored and respected by his fellow man. 
You will please allow^us^ to reiterate a part of what we 
have already said **ffiat the^ dairy product? has largely 
.diminished within the la*t year. We ask why this should 
be so? Have not the Europeans used the dairy products 
as largely the present season as heretofore ? 
Can it depend upon the quality of the goods we have 
put upon their markets ? 
We are aware that a large amount of oleomargarine and 
suine or butterine has gone forward to fill, the place of 
honest butter; how much this has had to do in diminishing 
the amount of butter exported, we do not know. We fear 
that the quality of cheese is not as good as it should be for 
exportation. It would hardly be possibly that the differ¬ 
ence in the price of either butter or cheese between 1879 
and that of 1880 (which we figure for the 11 months on an 
average of three cents and nine mills per pound on cheese 
and four cents and two mills on butter as per Elgin Board 
of Trade) would be sufficient to cause the drop in the ex¬ 
portation of the present year. It would appear that this 
matter should receive the careful attention of the dairymen 
