ICi ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



We suggested to him that that was a rather a poor method 

 of trying to get even for getting short weights and that a Justice 

 of the Peace would advise him what it cost to practice things of 

 that kind. He paid his fine and got the receipt. 



These are some of the various excuses, but it serves to illus- 

 trate to us that science has progressed so far as to make it a 

 certainty that we can discover whether milk has been tampered 

 with or not. In spite of the fact that 88 per cent of the average 

 normal milk is water, yet we can tell whether the water is added 

 or whether the cow put it there. 



Now for the benefit of the DeWitt county people, I want to 

 add a few words to what was said last night at the banquet about 

 the establishment of a creamery in Clinton. I regard it as one of 

 the greatest things that ever happened in the city of Clinton and 

 DeWitt county. I have not gone very long down in the matter 

 of years in this life but it has been my good fortune to see the 

 creamery business and the dairy business from its infancy in the 

 state of Iowa and in the state of Minnesota. The first creamery 

 built in Minnesota was patterned after a creamery in Iowa to 

 which I was hauling milk for my father at the time. Three 

 years after that time I went to Minnesota and engaged in the 

 business of learning buttermaking there and there were just a 

 few creameries in southern Minnesota at that time. There were 

 very few barns around the houses, and I am advised that the rec- 

 ords in the court house showed an enormous number of mort- 

 gages covering the entire county with only rare exceptions. In 

 less than ten years that county was looked upon as one of the best 

 dairy counties of the west, and I defy any man to show me any- 

 where a more prosperous community than that was in ten years 

 from the time the creamery started ,and it is so today. The far- 

 mers have money in the bank, and I know the bankers, hardly 

 know what to do with the money. The banks are sending it out 

 in quantities to newer sections where they have better opportuni- 

 ties of loaning it. No one there wants money any more ,and the 

 blame for it all lies with the good old cow. Their soil was be- 

 coming impoverished from the continuous cropping of wheat 



