154 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



churn has chilled the outer granules. When mixing the whole 

 mass together you lowered the temperature instead of increasing 

 it. 



Q :— When working butter, it is all right for two minutes 

 and then after that, gets so hard? 



A : — Sometimes the room is too cold and churn standing 

 open and gets cold. 



Q : — I draw up the butter and wash it. I wanned the water 

 by putting the water in the cans and the temperature was all right. 

 When taking the can and putting in another the temperature 

 dropped from 62 to 56 so I believe my trouble was that while the 

 temperature was all right at the top of the can, the bottom was 

 too cold? 



A : — The temperature was warmer on top if it stood on 

 the cement floor and the heat came to the top of the can. 



Q: — A difference of 6 degrees? 



A : — Yes sir no more. If one would take the best care in 

 the way of feed and sanitary conditions and general care, if he 

 was as careful as he could be, the man that makes the butter would 

 have very little trouble. 



Q: — My lady makes the butter, made butter for twenty 

 years. The customers, they regulate the taste. 



A : — Handling butter that way, for certain customers, your 

 aim would be to suit them. All the poor butter made today is 

 not the fault of the buttermaker. Farmers are sitting back and 

 thinking about what they are getting, and the buttermaker is 

 getting all the trouble. There is no use trying to take any thing 

 that is spoiled and make a good product of it. If I could get 

 hold of some of those farmers show them where they are wrong, 

 I could help the buttermaker. You attempt to tell a housewife 

 how to wash the cans, and you will get into hot water yourself. 



Q : — It is a fact just the same. 



A : — Yes sir. I had the pleasure of getting a letter from a 

 lady regarding the conditions of her milk cans. I had to tell her 

 they were not clean, and I guess the house wife was insulted. 

 She said "If you think my cans are so dirty, you are so dirty 

 yourself you can't tell when they are clean." 



