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good butter unless he has pure, wholesome milk and pure whole- 

 some milk is a scarce article at our co-operative creameries today. 

 Of course. I am not saying that all patrons bring unwholesome 

 milk ; but most every creamery has more or less patrons who will 

 be careless with their milk. Most every creamery has patrons 

 who will not milk clean; who will not cleanse their dairy utensils 

 thoroughly; who will not cool their milk before they bring it to 

 the creamery. Undoubtedly those patrons leave their milk in 

 the barn over night, in the winter time, to keep it from freezing. 

 They never seem to think that their milk pails, strainer, etc., 

 would be much better off if they would rinse them out with hot 

 or cold water and set them out in the night air to purify ; but 

 the}- just leave them setting around in their barns. They do not 

 seem to think that milk and butter are foods. Why, actually to 

 see some dairymen's care for their milk you would think it was 

 intended for the swill barrel and the hogs and not for the cream- 

 ery and human consumption. 



We will suppose the case that a creamery has fifty patrons 

 and forty bring good, clean milk and ten bring unwholesome 

 milk. Will not that unwholesome milk brought by those ten 

 patrons contaminate that brought by the forty? It will every* 

 time. To the patron who brings clean milk this is not right 

 or is it just. It would benefit both, and is high time that our 

 clean patrons demanded cleaner milk of our dirty ones, and when 

 our dirty patrons are educated to bring cleaner milk to our cream- 

 eries, then we should all try and improve upon that. I don't 

 know how it looks to you, but it looks to me as though cleaner,, 

 more wholesome milk is one of our creameries' greatest needs. 



A prominent authority has said, " If the death angel should 

 sweep over the state and in one night destroy the poorest third of 

 all the cows in Illinois the dairymen would awake the next morn- 

 ing financially better off." But if the dairymen would only realize 

 it we have something much better than the death angel in the 

 Babcock test and a pair of scales. 



The dairy departments of our agricultural colleges and 

 prominent dairy papers have proven that many dairymen are 



