18 ILLINOIS STATE DAIETMENS ASSOCIATION. 



H. W. Mead: This price looks very low; had made 

 cheese for thirty-five years, and had sold for four cents per 

 pound and done well; he now run two factories; made 

 butter and cheese, but this price seemed very low. 



Peof. Hall: Had also used the Cooley cooler; could 

 get all the cream in ten hours. Could not say as to the 

 keeping qualities ; iced butter would not keep ; he made 

 four trials, but the result was not entirely satisfactory; 

 his apparatus was not exactly perfect; one such experiment 

 will not do ; as the temperature of water, coloring matter 

 or some little thing might not be exactly right; could, by 

 forcing, get all the cream in eight hours. Had also tried 

 Hardin's plan; needs no air; also stops decay; Hardin's 

 is a refrigerator at 50°, when warm; also tried airing the 

 milk; could see no difference: set some in the dark and 

 some in the light; could see no difference. 



Me. Wattles said: As to the Cooley plan; after he 

 got his apparatus running, his wife had nothing to do; no 

 pans to wash, or churns to scald, or milk to skim ; he had 

 rather churn than take his milk to the factory; once cooled 

 the labor is done. 



A member called for Me. Boies' plan of cooling: 



Me. Boies said he cooled by an air duct; air at 52° to 

 63°; tried to hold as nearly at 60° as possible; in wet 

 weather it took two or three pounds more milk to make a 

 pound of butter than in dry weather ; no one plan would do 

 for alJ places; manipulations must be changed according to 

 circumstances. 



The Secretary of the Elgin Board of Trade, read the 

 following, as the transactions of the Board from December 

 12th, 1876, to December 11th, 1877: 



Pounds of cheese bold 6,636,386 



JSoxes of cheese sold 157,421 



Pounds of butter sold 1,174,388 



Total in dollars and cents $1,059,085.05 



