14;) ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



and make a commercial starter. He sent butter to St. Louis to 

 the contest and Mr. Keiffer criticised it and said, " You need a 

 commercial starter in your creamery." We were in competition 

 with two other states in this butter contest. 



Another need of a few is the accurate and fair work of 

 sampling and testing milk or cream. The satisfaction of the 

 patron depends upon this work. The laws of our state do not 

 say that we must use a scale in weighing cream for testing, but 

 I am more than pleased that so many of them are in use in our 

 creameries. If a farmer is not satisfied take time to show him 

 that your work is fair, that it is simple and accurate and that 

 the cream that tests 25 per cent today will not test 23 tomorrow. 



The creamery buttermakers in this state should organize and 

 hold meetings during the season that they are not busy. We 

 do meet here this week and discuss the phases of creamery 

 work, but this is not enough. If we can arrange to meet at 

 some creamery centrally located, have a tub of butter, a sample 

 of your starter, and if necessary samples of cream brought 

 along for inspection and testing, we could then compare work 

 and profit by each others mistake. We could devote part of the 

 time to demonstration work and part to discussion. Farmers 

 would be welcome and some subject treated that would be of 

 interest to them. These meetings would do much toward better 

 goods and harmony between creamery operators. I believe at 

 this time it might be well to mention that a few of the butter- 

 makers need to be more careful in finishing the butter for market. 



A good deal of the success of the creamery depends upon 

 the finished product, how it appears when ready for the con- 

 sumer. I have gone to the grocery stores in this state and 

 bought a pound of butter at different times, and sometimes one 

 brick, supposed to be a pound, would weight 15 ounces, another 

 16^2, and so on, and improperly wrapped. 



DISCUSSION. 



President : — We have now heard from all s^des, trom the 



