ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 85 



praises the university milk. We scored the dairy the other day. 

 It scored 80 or 85, fair grade of milk. We call it a good average, 

 but it was clean enough to save that baby's life. 



I have done a good deal of work in Illinois and investigated 

 the dairy conditions in your towns. Have written to all the towns 

 but three in Illinois of over 10,000. I haven't done any work 

 here, but have at Mattoon, Cairo, etc. I have studied the milk 

 conditions, and tell you tonight, that all the impurities that apply 

 to Washington, applies to Illinois too. 



In talking of this matter of good, pure, clean milk, I don't 

 want you to think it is only a question for the man who sells 

 milk in the city. I told this Association last year, at Effingham, 

 a man in Cleveland, I was doing this work, said to me just before 

 that convention, ''I can buy good meat, preserves very best and 

 cheapest, but I cannot guarantee good cream and butter to my 

 patrons at my restaurant, or good cheese. I cannot buy it any- 

 ^vhere in this country so it will be always good. Some of the 

 :ream is not fit to put in the coffee. Frequently I buy butter, 

 :he best in the market and it is off flavor, and my customers com- 

 plain." He said, "I never buy two cheese and have them taste 

 :he same. Why is it?" It is not because the man who makes 

 :he cheese, doesn't know his business, or the man who separates 

 :he cream, but because the milk has so much dirt in it and so many 

 mpurities from the farm that it is almost impossible to make 

 I uniform product. And don't think because you don't sell your 

 nilk to the city that it does not affect you, for it applies to the 

 vliole country. 



I don't want you to go aw^ay and think we do nothing but 

 .cold. i\Ir Lane and I have some pictures that we wanted to 

 Iiow you from New York, Ohio and Illinois of some of the most 

 >eautiful dairies, cows and sanitary plants that a man could wish 

 o look upon. We are not all dirty, and we are not very far be- 

 lind the times. We are in a process of evolution and do not want 

 o get behind. We want to keep moving right along. Get a few 

 hings better each year. Get your stable clean, that will be a new 

 tep in the right direction. Next year it would be a good thing 



