56 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



buys the farmers' hogs, oats, corn, etc., sample each lot and 

 pay accordingly. If Jones delivers No. i cream, pay him No. I 

 price; if Smith has No. 2 cream, pay him for second grade. If 

 someone would swindle you by bringing cream unfit for human 

 food, safeguard the people's rights and interests by landing him 

 in jail. In my judgment there is no half-way stopping place 

 in this matter. Butter is an article of food, and the farmer pro- 

 ducing milk who thinks any old way will answer, is a back 

 number and has another think coming, for the consumer must 

 and will be protected. The Pure Food Department will protect 

 the people's rights in this matter and the Creamerymen should 

 assist them in every way possible. 



The Department has done some very good work for the 

 dairy interests in making rules on this quality question, which 

 if lived up to will add to the value of the Dairy products of this 

 State materially. 



Some may think I have treated this question in a way to 

 lay most of the blame for poor Dairy Products at the farmers' 

 door. I am sure more of the dairy troubles have their source 

 there than elsewhere, and a little time and patience and com- 

 mon sense would remove the most of them without the expen- 

 diture of one cent. If farmers milking cows will get the habit 

 of "Cleanliness and Cold" in connection with milk as soon as it 

 leaves the cow's udder, many of the troubles of "Quality" would 

 disappear, and they could deliver No. 1 cream and get the high- 

 est price. It should be 30 per cent cream every other day in 

 summer and twice a week in winter, then it would be up to the 

 Creamerymen to make good to the consumer. 



From my experience there is little trouble when the flavor 

 of the cream is O. K. when received at the factory. In giving 

 such a paper as this to you farmers who are present may seem 

 out of place. The very fact of your being here tells me you are 

 not the ones I want to reach. It is those who do not take much 

 stock in book farmers, or read a dairy paper, or try to post 

 themselves on the fundamentals of dairying that I would like 

 to reach ; those that think once a week or ten days is often 

 enough to bring cream, and in the mean time let it stand in any 



