118 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN-S ASSOCIATION. 



In order to handle their products to get the best results a 

 creamery needs a good building well arranged, the most modern 

 machinery, such as separators, cream ripeners, starter cans, etc. 



And don't forget that the creamery needs a good supply of 

 pure cold water and good sewerage, and it needs to be managed 

 in the most economical manner and every possible effort made to 

 benefit the creamery's patrons. 



A creamery needs a buttermaker who is posted on all mat- 

 ters pertaining to the dairy and creamery business. 



A man who can get close to his patrons, for on his patrons 

 depends the success or failure of the creamery. There are many 

 patrons who are not educated in dairying. They don't take time 

 to read dairy literature if they take any. And I am sorry to say 

 there are many farmers at the present time who do not take a 

 dairy paper of any kind, cheap as they are. That is a mistake 

 on their part in my opinion. No farmer can afford to be with- 

 out one or more dairy papers and he should take time to read 

 them. 



The creamery needs a man, either manager or buttermaker, 

 who can instruct those people how to select feed and care for 

 their cows and to get the best results from them, how to care 

 for their milk or cream so it will reach the creamery in good con- 

 dition. So the buttermaker could make butter that will grade 

 as extra from it. 



In my judgment it would be a great benefit to the creamery 

 manager and patron if the creamery patron could be convinced 

 of the need of the creamery manager getting a better quality of 

 milk or cream in many instances, and money, in the patron's 

 pocket. 



The most pressing need the creamery manager has at the 

 present time is a buttermaker who can make extra butter out of 

 over-ripe cream. Cream in some instances that is six days old, 

 decidedly sour, and having other faults too numerous to mention. 

 Why this faulty cream? Because it didn't have proper care at 

 the time when it was produced in a majority of cases. Is there 



