60 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
to make out of us. It is to guard us from the unseett 
enemy and it seems to me that upon the national govern¬ 
ment we must depend for safety. Our inter-state relations 
are such that it would be impossible to get at this subject 
by laws of our state. Any person who knows anything 
about our laws knows that we sometimes find ourselves in 
a bad fix on account of these inter-state relations. In. 
the matter of syrup adulterations you see how hard they 
are to get at—they are refined in New York, wholesaled 
in Philadelphia and retailed in Illinois. Our state laws do 
not cover the ground. We should ask the national govern¬ 
ment to take hold of it, and do something more than has 
been done. There is no doubt that in regard to the 
manufacture of articles in the state, state laws can be 
made useful. 
He believed the dairymen should push this matter 
this Winter. Something had been done by our own 
legislature as this bill shows (reading the statute bearing 
upon adulteration of butter and cheese). This la^ if en¬ 
forced and a proper punishment meted out to violators 
would, he believed, prevent anything from being sold with¬ 
out being branded with its true name. He had heard it said 
that there was already too much legislation on the subject; 
some matters have too much, but no one would presume to 
say that the enforcement of this statute would not be ben¬ 
eficial to the health of the country. 
The following resolution was offered by W. W. Cor¬ 
bett of the Farmers Review , and adopted: 
Resolved , That this association regard with satisfaction 
the movement now being made by the Chicago Produce 
Exchange for the enforcement of the laws of Illinois con¬ 
cerning the manufacture and sale of adulterated articles' of 
food, and that we hereby tender to said Produce Exchange 
