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tember. I have been with the boys in Iowa and seen a Httle in 

 North Dakota and Minnesota, but the men in Ilhnois are as good 

 as at any other place. 



In some of the creameries in Northern Ilhnois the boys say 

 to me, '' You are here in the factory this morning, but don't say 

 anything about the factory to any one else." The boys proba- 

 bly gave their reasons for saying this and I try to be good to 

 them. 



In my address this morning I shall not mention any names 

 that will interfere with any of the work that the boys are doing. 

 I find all classes of them, and some of the boys in this state are 

 as fine as those in Iowa. 



I was talking with a man, whose name and creamery I shall 

 riot mention, but where there was trouble testing the milk when 

 I went there. I found there was a little difTerence in the reading 

 of the test. The man who run the creamery remarked that I did 

 not read the bottles right, so we got into an argument. He said, 

 •' You are reading like Babcock did, and I told him he didn't 

 read them right." Now, of course, you run across those kind of 

 boys, but they are good fellows just the same. I am convinced 

 that all of you have one grand motive, that is the education of 

 our buttermakers and creamery men. All of you will agree 

 with me that there is not another profession where the 

 finished product of a single individual comes in contact with so 

 many people as the finished product from the hands of the but- 

 termaker. Since it is one of the necessary things in every home, 

 it is essential that it should be made in just as neat a room and 

 with just as clean apparatus as the housekeeper would use in 

 making bread. 



If every pound of butter made in the creameries of Illinois 

 was as good as could be made, it would not be long before Illinois 

 butter would be at a premium and we could not make enough to 

 supply the demand. I don't know how it is with you, but when 

 I get poor butter I spread it on the bread thin. \A'hen it is good 

 the bread is the part that is thin. 



