THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL CONVENTION. 123 



SUGGESTIONS FOR ILLINOIS CREAMERIES. 



By 



F. A. Jorgensen, University of Illinois. 



I fully realize that the greater part of this audience is not 

 buttermakers and therefore not directly interested in this sub- 

 ject. I hope the few buttermakers who are here will be some- 

 what benefited by what I have to say, though I fully realize the 

 absent ones are those who ought to hear it. I don't want you 

 to go away thinking I am knocking on the Illinois Buttermakers ; 

 on the contrary I am speaking with the intention of doing some 

 good toward improving conditions under which they work. I 

 feel I have a right to speak from this standpoint as I have not 

 only had a chance to observe conditions as they exist, but also 

 where many of the creameries and buttermakers could improve 

 and ought to improve. Some of the things I am going to men- 

 tion may not hold true about all the creameries, but I am sorry 

 to say that it holds true of only too many. 



In the last few years there has been a marked change going 

 on among the Illinois creameries. We used to have nearly all 

 whole milk creameries; today we have but a few. The steady 

 growing demand for milk to supply Chicago and other large 

 cities has changed our best and highest producing dairy sections, 

 formerly dotted with whole milk creameries, into the shipping 

 business, condenser and bottling plants. They have sprung 

 up all through these high producing sections and especially in 

 the northern section of the State and in the so-called Elgin dis- 

 trict. These industries proved too strong a competition for the 

 creameries and they had to vacate. But in sections where cream- 

 eries still remain there has been a steady change from the whole 



