162 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Minnesota has carried off the prizes at the recent butter 

 contests at the World's Fair and the outside world, ignorant of 

 existing conditions, necessarily has the idea — and with good 

 cause we must admit — that Minnesota is par excellence the 

 butter state. 



They do not understand the forces that have been at work 

 in preparing for these contests and the very different conditions 

 under which the various states labor. 



I do not admit that natural conditions in Minnesota are 

 any more favorable than they are in Wisconsin, neither do I 

 believe you will find here in Illinois, or that the men of Minnesota 

 are any better, but we must admit that they have used methods 

 of inspection that have produced results. We do not begrudge 

 Minnesota what she has done along this line ; she has been 

 following out the advice of David Harum, " To do to the other 

 fellow what he was going to do to you, only do it first." 



I understand there are no state inspectors in Illinois. 

 Wisconsin with its 1,200 creameries and about 1,800 cheese fac- 

 tories has but three inspectors, with the additional help of three 

 instructors employed by the Wisconsin Dairy Association, whose 

 work along the line of inspection and instruction is frequently 

 interrupted by the demands upon their time by the 6,000 gro- 

 ceries, 2,000 butcher shops, 1,000 mills and several hundred 

 city milkmen. That the force of inspectors of the Minnesota 

 Dairy and Food Commission has done as much, if not more, 

 than any other one thing to bring about the remarkable showing 

 of the bread and butter state is not to be doubted. They visited 

 those factories known to be producing fine goods and at the time 

 of making the prize butter, it was an inspector who took in the 

 milk, none of which was rejected, but which was divided into two 

 vats, the best going by itself and the cream from which received 

 the careful attention of both inspector and maker until it was 

 made into the finished product. 



Creamery Inspection. 



We of Wisconsin have been looking with longing eyes on 



