FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION 101 



HOW ILLINOIS FARMERS CAN PRODUCE BETTER 

 QUALITY OF CREAM. 



J. D. Jarvis, LaFayette, Ind. 



Dairy Improvement Expert De Laval Separator Company. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : Yesterday you had 

 a talk on why Illinois farmers should grade cream. Today you 

 have a talk on how Illinois farmers can produce a better quality 

 of cream. 



During the past year business in general has received sev- 

 eral severe 'jolts, due to the reduction of tariff and the present 

 European war. Dairying also received several of these severe 

 jolts. While the importation of foreign butter is small at pres- 

 ent, I expect to see a large amount of foreign butter coming to 

 this country on the termination of that war from the Southern 

 Hemisphere, New Zealand, Australia, and from the neutral 

 countries of Europe, because dairying is a cash business and 

 those countries will be looking to a cash market, and America 

 will be that cash market. Do you know that last year, up to the 

 first of August, three-fourths of the European butter graded 

 as extras and had the tendency of widening the range between 

 extras, firsts and seconds ? Since the reduction of tariff, the 

 condensed milk factories have gotten into churning butter, and 

 the butter made by condensed milk factories is of extra quality. 

 That also tends to give the markets of this country more extra 

 quality butter, and by widening the range between extra, firsts 

 and seconds, you have caused butter that grades as seconds to 

 be thrown into direct competition with oleomargarine, a product 

 of a packing house industry and a concern which has the cost 

 of marketing reduced to a minimum. The creameries of this 

 country are up against a very severe proposition, and the cream- 

 eries are the farmers' market. And if the creameries do not 

 grade cream, and I understand that they are and they w^ill in 



