80 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



in dairying. The staff in- connection with the university is urdc 

 np of Mr. Hayden, who has charge of the work of testing milk, 

 a very important department. His work ie more in line of in- 

 struction and testing the different cows of the herd. Mr. Hor*- 

 per is engaged in the work of feeding and breeding dairy cattle, 

 assisting Prof. Frazer in this work, and my own work is dairy 

 manufacture, that is making the butter and cheese. Then we 

 have men engaged in field work. Mr. Lee at present is the only 

 man devoting his whole time to this field work. We have had 

 other men in the field. Just now things are quiet in the creamery 

 line, so there is not the same necessity of having men in the 

 creameries as there is in the spring and summer when a good 

 deal more butter is being made. We expect to do more work 

 alono- this line, because it is a line where we can be immecliatelv 

 helpful to the buttermaker. 



This field work is designed to do this — help the men in their 

 factories ; help them make a better quality of butter, make it 

 more economically, show them how to get more profits out of the 

 business, so in that way our work reaches dairymen as a whole, 

 even those that are producing milk for direct consumption in the 

 city trade. If we manufacture a large quantity of milk into but- 

 ter and cheese outside of Chicago it will help dairymen sending- 

 milk there, because it will tend to lessen the quantity of milk 

 sent into the city, and if the supply is not equal to the demand 

 the prices will increase. 



Then again, our field men go about among the creameries 

 and visit especially the creameries that are in need of help and 

 stay there the longest, trying to make a higher grade of butter 

 all through the creameries of Illinois. Mr. Hopper is engaged 

 in this work in Southern Illinois much of his time. The business 

 is not so firmly established as in the northern part of the state and 

 they have difficulties down there that we do not have to contend 

 with, because the people there do not pay as much attention to 

 dairying. However, they are improving in that respect and y< u 

 would be surprised to see the advance dairying has made in 

 Southern Illinois, the number of new creameries, and the way 



