ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



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I repeat — Be clean in all your dairy work. 



While the milk is being hauled from the farm to the receiv- 

 ing station, the cans should be covered with a blanket or a can- 

 vas to protect from mud and cold in winter and from heat and 

 dust in summer. Remember that the summer sun shining on a 

 can of milk will quickly raise the temperature; hence the need 

 of thorough cooling before leaving the farm. 



" Everlastingly at it " must be the watchword of the milk- 

 producer. Milk will sour or taint so quickly that it demands the 

 closest attention to do the work right and be ready for emer- 

 gencies. 



Yet dairying pays well for all this exacting work. Our 

 farms will yield larger returns under dairying than from any 

 other line of farming. Dairying is yet in its infancy and there 

 are plenty of opportunities for the man who will do his work well. 

 It pays to be careful with your milk. 



People are becoming more exacting in their demands for 

 good dairy products, and also more willing to pay for good 

 quality in dairy products — a sentiment which finally benefits the 

 man who believes " That whatever is worth doing at all is worth 

 doing well." 



DISCUSSION. 



Q : — You speak of feeding turnips to cows. My opinion is 

 that it should not be done at all ? 



A : — I used that more as an example than as advising they 

 should be fed. It is a feed that is used in the north more than 

 it is in this section, and that is one good example of a feed that 

 will taint milk. I used it more as an example of the general class 

 of feeds. We have fed them some. 



Q : — You made the remark that they should be fed just after 

 milking. I presume that it would not taint by next milking 

 time? 



A : — Yes sir. 



O : — I tried turnips enough to know they will tanit ? 



