]86- ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



ADDRESS GIVEN BEFORE THE ILLINOIS 

 DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



How Illinois Farmers Can Produce a Better Quality of Cream 



By Professor J. D. Jarvis, Department of Dairy and Creamery 

 Improvement, The DeLaval Separator Company. 



During the past year business in general has received sev- 

 eral severe jolts, due to the change in tariff and the present Eu- 

 ropean war. This is true with the dairy business, and while 

 foreign butter competition at present is small, nevertheless, as 

 soon as the great war is over, I expect to see a great increase 

 of foreign dairy products competing with our home products, 

 because dairying is a cash business, and European countries now 

 engaged in war, as well as the countries of the Southern Hem- 

 isphere, Australia and New Zealand, will look to America for a 

 cash market. Do you know, three- fourths of the foreign but- 

 ter which came to this country up to the first of August last 

 year, was classed as extras and helped to widen the range in 

 price between extras, firsts and seconds? This caused our first? 

 and seconds to be placed in direct competition with oleomargar- 

 ine, a product of the packing industry, which has the cost of 

 marketing reduced to a minimum. The large condensed milk 

 factories are also manufacturing butter because of the above 

 conditions, and their butter, due to the excellent quality of milk 

 received, is classed as extras, and enters into competition with 

 the butter from creameries. With the lesson thus taught to the 

 creameries of this country, foreign butter and cheese from con- 

 densed milk factories on one side, and oleomargarine competi- 

 tion on the other, the creameries that do not grade their cream 

 and pay according to grade will have a very severe time in 

 making a profit. 



