64 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN's ASSOCIATION. 



Resolved, That, in the judgment of this convention, those who 

 receive and manufacture milk, the proceeds of which are to be dis- 

 tributed pro rata among their patrons, have accepted a sacred trust — 

 a trust requiring great vigilance and care — and that they are morally 

 as responsible for the quality of milk they receive, as they are for the 

 products of their factories, and that it is as unjust for them to receive 

 adulterated milk, knowing it to be adulterated, as it is for dairymen 

 to furnish such milk, for they cannot but know that the adulterated 

 milk reduces the value of all pure milk they receive, and therefore 

 works to the injury of their best patrons. 



Resolved, That as it is absolutely necessary that the quality of 

 our dairy products be so improved that they will command a price in 

 the market that will remunerate the producer for his milk, and as 

 such improvement in the quality can be obtained only by the use of 

 pure and unadulterated milk, this convention advise all engaged in 

 •the business of manufacturing milk, to adopt at once a thorough daily 

 inspection of all milk received by them. Such inspection should show 

 the temperature of the milk when received at the factory, the quality 

 of the milk as indicated by the lactometer and the quality of cream 

 in every hundred pounds of milk, and should be recorded in a book 

 in such form and manner as would enable all their patrons to know 

 the daily average quality of all milk they receive, and they should 

 positively refuse to take milk from any and all persons who skim or 

 abstra(;t any portion of cream from their milk. 



Mr. Lord spoke to these resolutions, strongly depre- 

 cating the practice of skimming. A farmer might just as 

 well take one can of water and one can of in ilk to the 

 factory, and ask pay for two cans of milk. The practice 

 was wrong, and should be stopped. How is it with the 

 individual who accepts the trust to receive this^milk ? Does 

 he know of this skimming? or does he consent to it? If 

 20 men take to a factory, and five take poor milk, the other 

 15 would have reason to complain and just cause to protest 

 and demand that all bring good milk. When cbws are 

 coming in at all times of the year the milk should average 

 about the same ; of course where grain is fed in abundance 

 the milk is of a better quality. There is not a set of dairy- 



