ILLINOIS STATE DAIf YMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



ADDRESSES. 



J. H. MONRAD, REPRESENTATIVE OF THE UNITED STATES DE- 

 PARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



It is true I am here from the Dairy Division, but I am also here to 

 express the regrets of my chief, Maj. Henry E. Alvord, that he could not 

 be present himself. It is also true that I feel very incompetent to repre- 

 sent the Dairy Division, as I have not been connected with its dairy work 

 for the past summer, and really am not posted on what the Division has 

 done, at least not more, or may be not as much as those of you who have 

 been reading the dairy papers. 



This much I do know: The Division has proved that we can take ou;* 

 best creamery butter and ship it in refrigerator cars from Iowa or other 

 Western States; and if the steamers are provided with refrigerators then 

 we can land it and sell it even with the best butter sold in the London 

 markets, possibly not with unsalted butter from France, but with the 

 average Danish creamery. But it. has also been shown that it must be the 

 very best creamery butter. Now this is very satisfactory in so far that 

 we have found that there is a minimum price below which we need not 

 sell. But, after all, the home maiket is the best. It does not, as yet, pay 

 to export our best creamery butter. We can sell it at a higher price here. 

 I said the best creamery butter How much of the best creamery 

 butter is made? That, ladies and gentlemen, is the trouble of our dairy 

 industry. There is a lack of uniformity even in the production of our 

 creameries. 



It was not long ago, I happened to be on South Water street in the city 

 of Chicago, and asked some of ihe men there how the quality of the but- 

 ter was? They told me it was not good. I asked: "What percentage of 

 extra creamery do you receive, not what you return as extra to the cream- 

 ery, but what is really extra?" I asked if the percentage would be 25 per 



