102 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Mr. Newman told you all that I had intended to say about 

 the care that should be exercised in handling the product. Of 

 course I do not want you to feel that all of the blame for the 

 poor milk and poor butter is to be put on the dairyman, not by 

 a long ways. 



There are two things that at present seem very noticeable, 

 one is the producer taking- no better care of his milk or cream 

 than is just necessary; just so he gets rid of it, all his cares and 

 worries cease, and he leaves it to the other fellow to handle. The 

 other distinct feature is for the manufacturer to get all he can, 

 regardless of quality. These are two propositions that in the 

 course of a short time must be altered if we shall look for any 

 improvement in the quality of dairy products. There are many 

 things in which the creameries show their shortcomings in so 

 far as looking out for the quality. 



It used to be in Illinois, that all the butter was good. At 

 least I have been told so by old men and from the information 

 that I have gathered from different parts of the United States, I 

 cannot help but feel it was true. It was in the days when we 

 had the whole milk system; yet, even under the whole milk sys- 

 tem creameries had a great deal of trouble. The change from 

 the whole milk to the hand separator has taken place since I have 

 been here. We used to think the butter would be unsalable if 

 the change was completed. I find that in some sections they are 

 making just as good butter under the hand separator system as 

 they did under the whole milk system. They are making a more 

 uniform grade and they are making more. But it is true on an 

 average the introduction of the hand separator system has low- 

 ered the quality of butter considerably. 



So we might say that the hand separator system is wrong. 

 I do not think it is wrong, it is that we have taken it in the 

 wrong spirit. The hand separator is the most economical from 

 the producer's standpoint and also from the manufacturer's ; for 

 anything you can do to lower the cost of production and manufac- 

 ture is clean profit. 



1 am sure that it is possible to make just as good and uni- 

 form butter under the hand separator system as under the whole 



