192 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION | 



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ered with a damp cloth or canvas in warm weather. The ' 

 evaporation of the water from this covering causes a reduction j 

 of temperature inside the can. Some manufacturers of dairy i 

 supphes have special jacketed cans which enable the farmer or \ 

 cream station to keep cream cool in transit to the creamery. Id i 

 older developed dairy sections, the railroads are giving refrig- j 

 erator car service to shippers of milk and cream, but in section? \ 

 where dairying is in its infancy, the special jacketed or covered | 

 can, has considerable merit, and if used will enable the cream- j 

 ery to receive a better quality of cream. | 



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Frequent Delivery 



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The factor, frequent deliver}^, is very important and cream ; 

 ought to be delivered every day if possible, or at least three i 

 times a week in the summer and two times a week in the winter. ' 

 The oftener the delivery, the better will be the quality of the ' 

 cream and thus enable the creamery to manufacture a better i 

 and more uniform quality of butter. One of the chief reasons j 

 the creameries in the Northern dairy states manufacture an . 

 extra quality of butter, is due to the frequent delivery of cream j 

 to their creameries. Many of th^se large creameries receive all \ 

 hand separator cream and nearly all the cream delivered to the \ 

 creamery is sweet, or clean acid in flavor. Of the thousand 

 creameries in Wisconsin, it is said over 85% receive all or a \ 

 large part of their cream from farms where the hand separator ] 

 is being used, and Wisconsin butter is noted for its fine quality, i 

 The same is nearly true with Minnesota and Iowa. Of course I 

 the farmers of these States and sections of this State have a ; 

 greater number of cows and receive large quantities of milk, but \ 

 I believe that if all the farmers of Illinois delivered what little j 

 cream they are now producing in a sweet, or clean acid flavor j 

 condition, to the creameries, the extra price they would receive 1 

 for their cream would be an incentive to milk better cows, and I 

 a greater number of cows. Dairying would grow in all sec- 1 

 tions and everybody would be benefited, because more money 

 would be put into circulation. 



