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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
We have one of these famous preparations in our 
hands. 
Like all others it is rich in promise, and yet no official 
reports of its saving or destructive qualities, so far as we 
know, have ever been made public. 
You will notice that all who compound these famous 
substitutes, claim that their preparations are nearly akin to 
milk, thus acknowledging that milk is the best food, and that 
the scientist who can compound an ingredient as whole¬ 
some, and nutritive as milk, has rendered a valuable service 
to mankind. 
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But why should we fly to doubtful substitutes for food 
for our children when we have such an abundant supply of 
milk? 
The objector to milk claims that milk that is distributed 
in our large cities is not pure, or that it has been adulter¬ 
ated. 
We know that a great deal has been said about the im¬ 
purity of milk, and the want oi cleanliness of our dairymen 
and dairymaids. 
Were one to believe half that has been said or written 
on this subject, he would become convinced that all the 
neatness and purity had been transferred from our dairy in¬ 
dustries to the slaughter houses and rendering establish¬ 
ments of our great cities, and that ail the impurities of the 
slaughter houses had been mixed in with our dairy 
products. 
In reply to all such slanders, allow us to say that our 
dairymen, and dairymaids, and dairy-barns and milk houses 
are the very perfection of purity and neatness, as compared 
with the persons and surrounding where that vile substitute 
for butter is prepared. 
And here we would say that, were the slaughter 
houses and rendering establishments as free of police sur- 
veilance as are our dairy industries, they would become in¬ 
tolerable nuisances. Not by legal restraint are our dairies 
kept pure, but because the dairymen of this country have 
invested too much money in this industry to be willing to 
