ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 8 1 
We submit that this method of testing milk is very 
simple. 
We know of no other article of food in which adul¬ 
teration can be so easily detected. 
After this brief survey, we are prepared to consider 
the final report of our commissioner to the Paris Exposi¬ 
tion. 
In doing this we should keep in mind the fact that the 
most famous preparations of infantile food that could be 
devised by scientific men were on exhibition at that exposi¬ 
tion, and that the whole subject was being investigated in 
the light of the “ frightful mortality among children,” and 
the felt necessity of devising some means of “ arresting the 
destruction.” 
After a full consideration of the whole subject, he re¬ 
ports that, “ In France the people are satisfied in this em¬ 
ergency with cow’s milk.” 
“ The milk of a cow. with the addition of one-fifth 
water, and a little sugar, is not only a nearer approximation, 
it is the nearest approximation ” to the food which nature 
has designed for children. 
“ Why then ” he adds “ fly to a doubtful chemical com¬ 
position, when we have at hand so natural and safe an 
aliment as cow’s milk.” 
This was followed by a paper from Mrs. F. S. 
Bosworth. 
BY MRS. F. S. BOSWORTH, OF ELGIN. 
“The Farmers, as Contributors to the National Pros¬ 
perity.” 
In considering the well-being of our nation, we shall 
take into account, not only its material wealth, but its 
wealth of intellect and moral power, and the industry which 
contributes most largely to all these must of necessity form 
the foundation of our success as a people. To affirm that 
