ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 83 



dairy work. Farmers that in the past laughed at our Institutes 

 and our butter exhibits, now are our most enthusiastic workers 

 and their butter now scores with the best at our last meeting. 

 Out of forty entries, only three were below ninety, our highest 

 score 97. 



The northern and southern counties of Illinois are well sup- 

 plied with dairies and creameries and we know are doing good 

 work, but what the State Dairy Women's Association wants to do 

 is to get the central part of the state organized as you in the 

 northern and southern sections are organized, and to encourage 

 more farmers to go into the dairy work. 



We feel the need of more and better butter. Our grocery 

 men are insisting on some method of ruling out the poor grade 

 of butter, and the graded system will do it. A 1 butter should be 

 taken to your market and be sold according to score. It would 

 pay the grocery men of a city of any size to hire a man by the 

 year to score all butter. That would rule out this imposition so 

 many merchants have to contend with, or at least the producers 

 could be taught so as to be able to judge or score their butter, and 

 all butter to grade not less than 90. If it scored lower to receive 

 a lower price, and if above that to receive as high as any dairy or 

 creamery butter. We can see no better method than by getting 

 all the counties organized, and by having meetings with demon- 

 strations thereby instructing all how to feed the cows and milk 

 them and to care for the cream, and to make the best butter. 



Our Farmers' Institutes have been a help to us, let us have 

 our meetings, our demonstrations and our state butter shows 

 thereby getting more opportunities of scoring our butter to see 

 what improvement we are making. There are so many points to 

 learn in the making of butter in summer and winter, with dry 

 feeds it is harder to get a good flavor than with grass. Still it is 

 just as hard to make a good flavored butter when first turning on 

 grass in the spring. 



I think there is one thing that has kept a great many people 

 from going into this work, and that has been the lack of pasture, 

 but that need not keep any one out any longer. 



