82 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



line of credit when wanted, while his neighbor, his equal in all 

 other respects, upon soliciting a favor of similar character is 

 granted the favor, if at all, very reluctantly. 



It may be that in some of the older dairying communities 

 the idea or notion has gone forth that Southern Illinois is not 

 adapted to the dairy business, from the fact that its soil is not 

 capable of producing such qualities of grass or that feed suitable 

 for dairying can not be produced profusely here, or perhaps the 

 farmers themselves may not be possessed of the necessary 

 elements of success. If such should be the case we would 

 desire to remove as speedily as possible all such erroneous 

 beliefs. 



There are we believe, to this day, those who profess to 

 believe that butter cannot be made in Southern Illinois equal to 

 that in some other older districts, Elgin, for instance. They 

 are entitled to their opinion of course, but it is a fact of which 

 there is no denying that there is a large trade in St. Louis, for 

 Southern Illinois creamery made butter, among the best class of 

 family trade. A trade that will take as its choice the butter 

 made here and shipped in strictly fresh in preference to the best 

 northern and western goods. We think it high time that idea 

 about only certain favored localities being suitable for producing 

 the highest class of butter should be exploded. Of late quite a 

 discussion has arisen in regards to lifting some of the burdens 

 off the farmer by introducing to his notice and use the hand 

 separator, and while this system has some advantages, especially 

 to the large producer, we do not consider it adapted by any means 

 to the average dairyman. This idea about the farmer having to 

 loose so very much valuable time in going to and from the 

 creamery is largely a myth. There is not one farmer 

 out of a dozen who is any distance from a creamery, say two to 

 four miles, but that can club with his neighbor, and need not 

 come with milk oftener than once in four, five or six days, and 

 he necessarily must come or send to town once or twice a week 

 any way. So we cannot see that hand separator would be of 

 any advantage whatever to the dairyman and it would in our 

 opinion be a source of trouble and annoyance to the creamery 



