138 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



ery. It is all nonsense for the fanners to think that to hustle it out to 

 the factory, and then expect the creamery to take all kinds, and make good 

 butter out of it. The creamery man is human, he cannot do impossibili- 

 ties. He can help a good deal, but he cannot do it all. They must deliver 

 their milk in a healthy condition. 3 think the dairymen, generally speak- 

 ing, are intelligent. 



In the factory, of course, we must keep abreast of the times; use the 

 best machinery, studying out that line of work. As you have to study on the 

 farm, we have to study different machines, the different utensils, the differ- 

 ent butter colors and how it affects butter, and all the little things that go 

 to make up a proper creamery in waking and manufacturing butter. 



Of course it is not in the province of this association to tell what kind 

 of machines to use, for each must study that out for himself, but one thing 

 I will tell you, they must be of the best. 



We have to depend largely on the foreman of each factory for the 

 product he turns out, hence it is essential that we should be very care- 

 ful in selecting his man, which we try to do, and I think no creamery will 

 be successful which is not particular on that point. 



The Dairy Association has felt especially sore over the way we have 

 been treated by our State University. Down at Champaign we are sup- 

 posed to have an agricultural school, where our children may attend and 

 be taught in the various branches of agriculture. I think we should de- 

 mand more for the Dairy school at Champaign. They should have a dairy 

 building where young boys can go and study. They should have 

 their professors in different lines of this work as is the case with the nor- 

 mal school and what might be termed "higher education." 



I want to impress this on this audience because I know you live in 

 what is called the corn belt. I don't think we get a fair show 

 at the university. We don't like it and are very frank to speak of it when 

 we get a chance. We demand of the legislature $30,000 which they should 

 give us for a dairy building and equip it and put us in line with Minnesota, 

 Iowa, and others of the western States, and I think the dairymen should 

 rise and demand, not simply ask, for this. I have here a paper which I 

 will attach showing the needs, and also a statement of the various States 

 that have all these things. 



Of course marketing of the product has a great deal to do with mak- 

 ing creameries pay, and the neater and nicer you can make the packages 



