26 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 



ORGANIZATIONS 



In the field under discussion we cannot fail to recognize certain 

 agencies outside of the manufacturing plants themselves, which have 

 played their part in our progress. I refer to such organizations as 

 the National Dairy Council, which, recognizing the fact that our 

 dairy products must necessarily be marketed at home, and realizing 

 that our production is already up to our consumption, has set out, dur- 

 ing the past ten years, on well-planned educational campaigns, looking 

 toward the increase in consumption of all dairy products. The 

 American Association of Creamery Butter Manufacturers, with Pro- 

 fessor McKay as its secretary, has functioned for the whole creamery 

 industry for ten years as a clearing house for the many problems which 

 have confronted the centralized creamery business. The Association 

 of Illinois Butter Manufacturers, which was formed about a dozen 

 years ago, has served its purpose in eliminating numerous trade evils 

 which seem necessarily to exist in a new-formed industry. The Illinois 

 Ice Cream Makers Association has performed a similar service for the 

 ice cream industry. 



As has already been suggested at many points in this paper, much 

 of the development indicated as having taken place in the last quarter 

 of a century has been made possible through the various activities of 

 the Agricultural College. This assistance has taken the form of new 

 scientific discoveries, the adaptation of chemical and bacteriological 

 methods to commercial conditions, the adaptation of scientific business 

 principles to a highly specialized industry, and the furnishing of 

 trained men for putting these discoveries into execution ; and, finally, 

 the College has set a mark to shoot at in respect to the quality of dairy 

 products. In fact, so intimately are these contributions woven into 

 the whole structure of dairy manufactures that their source is 

 scarcely recognized except on occasions of this kind when we are tak- 

 ing inventories. In closing, it should be said that the dairy industry, 

 as never before, is looking to the Agricultural College for assistance 

 in the solution of its problems as well as for the training of its men, 

 and there is no doubt that when the resume of the activities of the 

 dairy industry is written for the next twenty-five years, it will contain 

 in large letters the name of the Agricultural College. 



