. Annual report of the Illinois State Dairymen's Association. Illinois State Dairymen's Association; Dairy farms; Dairy farming. FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 75 ment of Agriculture as requested, and allow the tubercular eradication to come into that talk as it naturally would. As you are all probably aware, the executive branch of your state government is divided into ten parts or ten departments of state. At the head of each one of these departments there is a director. Each one of these direc- tors not only is a director of the department, but he is a member of the governor's cabinet. One
. Annual report of the Illinois State Dairymen's Association. Illinois State Dairymen's Association; Dairy farms; Dairy farming. FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 75 ment of Agriculture as requested, and allow the tubercular eradication to come into that talk as it naturally would. As you are all probably aware, the executive branch of your state government is divided into ten parts or ten departments of state. At the head of each one of these departments there is a director. Each one of these direc- tors not only is a director of the department, but he is a member of the governor's cabinet. One of these ten departments of state is a department of agriculture, and it is one of the larger of the depart- ments. The department of agriculture of Illinois is di- vided into nine branches or divisions. Over each one of these divisions there is a superintendent. Ea^h division takes care of one specific line of work. I will not take the time to take up the work of each one of these divisions, but I will speak briefly on the work of some of the larger of the divisions; and first of all I wish to mention the Division of Foods and Dairies, a divi- sion under which the dairy and food inspection of Illinois is conducted, having approximately forty inspectors in the field and approximately fifteen chemists in our laboratory. When I took office last spring there was .soms criti- cism of this division, some people did not think it was going as well as it might. Perhaps it wasn't, or perhaps they were wrong, but this much I wish to say in behalf of that division: last October there were over eight hundred sam- ples of food analyzed in our food laboratories, which was many more samples of food than had ever been analyzed in the state laboratory in any one month in the history of the state. In November the record of September was brok- en, and there was over one thousand samples of food anal- yzed. In that same month there were eighty-three thou- sand pounds of food condemned and destroye
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