48 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN's ASSOCIATION. 



engaged in supplying factory fixtures and implements. This fact 

 should be home in mind by dairymen when reading the suggestions! 

 and advice to them found in the annual published proceedings of 

 that association. 



Dairymen can hardly escape bankruptcy if they continue in 

 the course they pursued the past season, and are now pursuing. The 

 present system, if the wasteful, expensive and unprofitable manner 

 j n which their milk is converted into saleable commodities can be 

 called a system, must be so changed as to produce more remunera- 

 tive results to the dairymen or else abandoned. It is favorable to 

 the proprietors of factories, who are in the main middlemen, and 

 unfavorable to the dairymen. 



The dairymen can, and if changed at all, must change it. If 

 m,ore and better butter and cheese, and for less money, cannot be 

 made from their milk (of course I mean pure milk) by the proprie- 

 tors of factories, than in the past season, then dairymen will be forced 

 to make up their milk at their several homes, or associate together 

 in proper and convenient numbers and erect factories, employ practi- 

 cal cheese and butter makers and under their own supervision man- 

 facture and sell their own commodities or abandon the business. 



It is indispensable to the success of the dairy business now, 

 that only first-class butter and cheese shall be made. Such goods 

 can always be sold at home, they aie ever in demand and sought 

 after, purchasers will hunt for them and come for them and pay a 

 reasonable price for them. Such goods, too, can be kept and hence 

 facilities for keeping them, when necessary, should be provided. To 

 make such goods, only pure milk can be used ; hence a system of in- 

 spection of premises, stables, cows, water used, dairy utensils used 

 and management of thedairy, generally, and the milk itself, must be 

 adopted and enforced where the milk is manufactured at factories or 

 upon any associated plan. Then there must be less waste and ex- 

 pense in manufacturing and better methods of selling. If the pro- 

 prietors of factories would purchase the milk or manufacture it upon 

 the plan of responsibility, before stated, or upon any other plan 

 which will compel them to assume that degree of responsibility 

 which is necessary to insure the best results and is fair and just, 

 then dairymen might hope for reasonable success without making 

 up their milk themselves, either associated with each other or indi- 

 vidually. If, however, no such arrangement can be effected with 



