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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
they worked well and accomplished a great deal in the 
short time they were there. They had a law passed which 
should be better enforced than it has been. We succeeded 
in crettin^ a bill through the House and recommended by 
the Senate committee appropriating $ 3,000 for this associa¬ 
tion, but it was lost in the Senate. In talking with mem¬ 
bers cf the Senate and trying to persuade them that the 
benefits from such an association would be great, he was 
told that they thought it was the heighth of impudence for 
dairymen as well posted in their business as the members 
of vour committee to come down there and ask the state 
to anorooriate a certain amount for their instruction in mat- 
ters *bout which they knew more than anyone else. He 
said the opposition came mainly from the Southern part of 
the state. He was in favor of sending the committee back 
there to work. 
Adjourned until 7 p. m. 
The evening session was called to order at 7:3° by the 
president. 
M. W. Corbett, of the Farmers' Reviezv , offered the 
following resolutions, which were adopted. 
Whereas, It is a fact that pleuro-pneumonia and other 
ccmtageous and infectious diseases among cattle, and 
cholera among swine, prevail in various localities in this 
country, whose spread would bring ruin to our vast live 
stock and dairy interests, therefore be it 
Resolved ., That this Association hereby most earnestly 
urge upon Congress, now in session, the passage of enact¬ 
ments that shall prohibit the further introduction of con- 
tageous and infectious domestic animals' diseases from 
abroad, and also from one state to another; also further 
enactments that shall effectually stamp out said diseases 
