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ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



ing buttermilk for starter, " Do not do it, unless it should be for 

 a single day." 



During the winter months when milk is delivered at the 

 creamery only three times a week it is a hard matter to make a 

 good starter. The following method works very satisfactorily : 



Select the skim milk ; pasteurize it 1)y setting the cans into 

 a tank of water into which a steam pipe is extended. Heat the 

 water high enough to bring the milk up to 17' 5 or 180. Leave 

 it stand at that temperature for at least twenty minutes. During 

 pasteurization the milk should be stirred occasionally. Then cool 

 the milk to 60 or below. Take out enough of the milk so as to 

 carry the starter over until the following day. On that day add 

 a portion of the starter to the milk that was held over from the 

 preceding day, warmed up to a desired temperature. 



Every creamery operator should be very careful and try to 

 keep the creamery neat at all times, not only the things that are 

 inside the factory but the surroundings. See that the skim milk 

 tank is washed clean every day. Be ready for the farmers every 

 morning. 



If the farmers are not all satisfied with what you are doing 

 for them, ask the unsatisfied ones to your creamery, show them 

 what you are doing, try to make them understand that the work 

 is fair and square. 



To the creamery men that can see the hand separators in the 

 near future I have this to say, *' Try to keep your patrons satis- 

 fied ; give each one what belongs to him; never run unnecessary 

 water into the skim milk ; see that it is run through clean pipes 

 and delivered from a sweet tank." I believe the time is coming 

 when the commission men will ask if the butter is made in whole 

 milk or hand separator factories. It is our object to assist the 

 creamery operators of the state. Anything we can do which we 

 believe can possibly be of any help to them we are going to do 

 to tlie best of our ability. Not alone because we like to do it, 

 but because it is your right to demand it. 



There is nothing that does me more good than to get a 

 letter from one of our creamery operators stating that he would 



