46 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN's ASSOCIATION. 



In answer to a question: He made one pound of 

 butter from twenty-five and a quarter pounds of milk. He 

 had heard of more being made, but he would like to see it. 

 He had been told by a dairyman in Chicago that he was 

 making four pounds of butter from one hundred pounds of 

 milk. He fed corn and oats, and thought it was better to 

 grind all together. He set his milk in pools in deep setters 

 for forty hours ; in warm weather, twenty-four hours. Let 

 it get a little sour before skimming, but usually skimmed 

 just as the milk was changing. When he started it took 

 twenty-seven pounds of milk to make one pound of butter. 

 He had found it took just one and three-quarters pounds 

 more of milk in June than in October to make a pound of 

 butter. 



Bartlett : Found a little over one pound difference 

 between summer and October milk. He had always found 

 a good deal of difference in these two seasons, but it was 

 probably in the feed. He let his milk stand thirty-eight or 

 forty hours ; Eibout the same at all times of the year. Was 

 getting at this time of the year about four and one-half 

 pounds of butter to one hundred of milk. He had gotten 

 from fifteen to thirty-three cents for his butter. Weighed 

 it as soon as it came out of the churn. He shipped to 

 Chicago. 



J. H. Foote was then called upon : He set his 

 milk in warm weather by putting in pans. He had made 

 in October a little less than four pounds of butter to one 

 hundred pounds of milk. In November he made one 

 pound of butter from twenty-one of milk. He had fed 

 bran, corn-meal and corn in the shock. 



O. S. McAllister : Thought the dairy business 

 needed experience and close attention. He thought if a 



