14 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN S ASSOCIATION. 



STANDARD QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF MILK. 



Quantity. — Borden's standard — of eight and five- 

 eighths pounds per gallon — is now taken and accepted as 

 the standard for milk, not only in our own country, but in 

 all Europe. 



Quality. — The executive committee of the State 

 Dairymen's Association, after many experiments carefully 

 made, have decided that hereafter the following shall be 

 considered by them as the standard quality of milk in 

 Illinois: Water, 87.5; solids, 12.5 — in a scale of 100 

 parts. 



