90 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



corn fodder around and it makes it warm. She keeps about 50 to 60 hens, 

 and every morning in the winter time she would have a warm breakfast 

 for the chickens, before we had oar breakfast. She has been feeding 

 sugar beets to the cows, and she lakes some down to the chickens in the 

 morning and puts some in their food and it makes the hens feel good. We 

 have 40 to 45 hens. She gets from one to two dozen eggs every day. The 

 hens get out a lot every day in the barn. She carries wheat to the 

 chickens now and lets her hens work for it, scratch for it. The eggs are 

 delivered with the milk. We get 25 cents a dozen for them and cannot 

 supply the trade. My wife always wants her money from the sale of thu 

 eggs as soon as we get home 



Some Mistakes and Trials in Creamery Management 



H. R. DUEL, FRANKS, ILL. 



In this life we are irritated by mistakes, and perplexed with trials. 

 We wish to notice for a few minutes a few mistakes and trials as we find 

 them in the creamery business. 



First, the farmer makes a mistake when, either through carelessness 

 or heedlessness, he fails to provide good, wholesome milk for the cream- 

 ery. One of, the chief sources, if not the chief one, comes from lack 

 of cleanliness on the part of the patron, or whoever has the care of the 

 milk on the farm. Much has been written and much has been said 

 upon this subject of cleanliness, but in view of the fact that a vast- 

 amount of inferior butter is placed upon our markets today, leads us to 

 believe there is yet a broad field in which to continue this fight between 

 filthiness and cleanliness— between care and carelessness. 



Yes, this warfare with filth on the one side and cleanliness on the 

 other, must go on, and on, and on, until this arch enemy of butter is 

 completely annihilated through the combined efforts of patron and butter- 



