66 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



The majority of us have scrub cows, but we are interested 

 to learn how with good breeding and good care we can raise our 

 standards. The market to a large extent is one that will look 

 after itself. The competition for dairy products is sufficient to 

 make a price. It is not necessary for a man to pay a great deal 

 of attention as to how to maintain a market; he will find it if 

 he produces the right kind of material. But the care of the cow 

 in my opinion is one that interests the dairyman the most and 

 is paramount to all other things. I know that Mr. Foss' success 

 is more particularly because of the care that he gives his cows. 

 It would be impossible for me to give even an idea as to what 

 course might be pursued in order to cut out poor cream that is 

 delivered to the manufacturers. It is a question that has 

 troubled the creamerymen for ten years. They have discussed 

 it but they have not decided on a plan that would be effectual. 

 It is because they have been ruled by fear. 



A few years ago I went to Elgin to visit the Borden milk 

 plant. I had heard of it and I had an idea that all the butter was 

 manufactured at Elgin; that there was a concentration there of 

 all produce of this kind. I visited Borden's, and, as Mr. Mason 

 stated a while ago, there was a string of wagons a mile long 

 waiting to be unloaded. I started down the line and talked to 

 many of the men that were driving these wagons, and I was sur- 

 prised to find one thing, that while Borden was getting all the 

 milk he wanted in the face of competition, a man that failed to 

 furnish him good milk this year, when contract time came next 

 year and he came to sign the contract, he was asked to stand aside, 

 and there was no explanation given, and none was necessary. He 

 knew what was the matter. He had been advised he must take 

 better care of his milk and he realized he had not done it. There 

 was a feeling of pride sufficient to want to deliver milk to a 

 good milk concern. He knew when he quit that all of his neigh- 

 bors knew the reason why he had quit and it was a stigma upon 

 his character as a dairyman that he did not want there. He 

 would go to the Manager and beg to be taken back. I apprehend 

 the same condition would be true with creamer.y men if they 

 would, decide to do the same thing. 



