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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN S ASSOCIATION. 



in the absence of any guarantee of quantity or quality of the pro- 

 ducts, it is unreasonable to suppose that either he or his employe 

 would contend seriously with any patron about the purity of the 

 milk. No inspection of the premises of patrons is made nor is there 

 any examination into their manner of keeping, feeding and watering 

 their cows, milking their cows^ straining and cooling their milk, and 

 caring for their cans. 



The naked statement of the management generally of the facto- 

 ries is of itself evidence that the quantity of butter and cheese made 

 was not as large, and the quality not as good, and the price obtained 

 not so high, as might be ; and hence, even at the low prices prevail- 

 ing last summer and fall, the dairymen did not receive what they 

 ought for their milk. 



Experience teaches that when the management of a business is 

 confided to hired help success is seldom attained, and the business of 

 manufacturing butter or cheese from milk is no exception to this 

 rule. It is bad enough to intrust one's business to his own hired 

 help, but to intrust it to the hired help of another — as dairymen do 

 — is still more disastrous. To this management of factories generally 

 there are some notable exceptions. These exceptions are generally 

 where all the operations in a factory occur under the eye and helping 

 hand of a skilled proprietor, who appreciates the importance of neat- 

 ness, care and economy, and of producing excellent commodities — 

 and who therefore endeavors to prevent impure milk being received 

 and to manufacture only first-class goods- -and to have all the work 

 done prudently and cleanly. 



The dividends reported furnish further evidence that dairymen 

 did not receive what they ought for their milk. The following is a 

 statement of the lowest and highest dividends as reported from a 

 large number of factories, to-vvit : 



FOR MONTH OF 



May 



June 



July 



August 



September. 

 October — 



FOR lOO POUNDS. 



43 cts. 

 32 " 

 45 " 

 50 " 

 73 " 

 83 " 



60 cts. 



50 " 



52 " 



72 " 



92 " 



100 " 



EQUIVALENT IN GALLONS. 



3.87 Cts. 



4.5 



4-5 



6.57 



7-47 



DIFFERENCE. 



17 Cts. 



18 " 



7 " 



22 " 



19 " 

 17 " 



53 cts. 

 62 " 



63 " 



95 " 

 71 " 

 52 •' 



In this calulation I suppose a gallon of milk to weigh 9 lbs., 

 which is probably about 4 oz. above the average. Assuming that a 

 patron had fifty cows, yielding per cow per day one and four-fifths 



