46 ILLINOIS STATE DAIEYMEN's ASSOCIATION. 



L. C. Ward, St. Charles, said he was not a speaker. 

 As to making butter alone, he had no experience; as to 

 making both, he had. To run a factory on three thousand 

 pounds per day, would ruin anyone; twenty thousand 

 pounds would do, at three and one-half and four cents for 

 butter. He knew that some factories in the East worked 

 up milk into cheese for one and one-half cents per pound, 

 while two and one-half was charged. He had been to some 

 trouble to get reports from some of those Eastern factories. 

 In Chataqua County, N. Y., while they were paying a div- 

 idend of ninety cents per one hundred pounds of milk, he 

 was paying, the same time, oije hundred and ^Ye cents per 

 one hundred pounds of milk, he charging two and one-half 

 cents for manufacturing, which was the cheapest for the 

 dairyman; it was an easy problem to figure; he paid fifteen 

 cents per one hundred pounds more than they did; they 

 could afford to manufacture cheaper than he could; they 

 often used old sheds (or something no better,) for factories; 

 no capital invested, while he had fifteen thousand dollars 

 invested in his factory which was perishable property. 

 Products would sell better out of a nice, clean, well regulated 

 factory, than an old rickety shed. In the East, factorymen 

 employed women at one dollar per day; he hired good, 

 experienced help; had to pay over three dollars per day; 

 this must be done where a factoryman warrants his 

 products; no cheap help will do where a good article is 

 desired; you must hire a good man with a good head on 

 him. Could work up fifty thousand pounds as well as five 

 thousand pounds per day. It was worth a great deal to 

 patrons to have their product sold,^nd always at the highest 

 price; sold all to one man. It was not a fact that the 

 majority of patrons to cheese factories were dissatisfied; 

 could always hold his patrons; they w^ere constantly on the 

 increase. The fact is, the western farmers charge a little 

 more than in the East, but pay their patrons a great deal 

 more. Smail factories should be consolidated, so as to 

 cheapen manufacture. Must have good factory buildings; 



