ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



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O : — Then the trouble is with the care of the cream and not 

 with the separator. If you dehver good, sweet cream, no 

 trouble ? 



A : — That's it. If they would take care of the cream, I 

 haye nothing to say about the hand separator. 



O. — Isn't it true that there are a great many hand separator 

 agents telling the farmers that they only haye to deliyer 

 cream once a week ? 



A : — Yes, I haye know agents haye told them they would not 

 haye to wash their separators eyery day, and I told them to tell 

 the agents they did not know what they were talking about. 

 Separators should be washed after you get through with them. 

 I haye found separators in creameries that had not been washed 

 eyery day. That ought not to exist. One man run hot water 

 through his separator and did not wash the pan. I took the pan 

 out and told him it was not clean, and he said he did not know it. 



Q : — Was he lazy ? 



A : — I think it was carelessness. 



Mr. Newman : — There is room for education in all lines, no 

 matter whether in the creamery or on the farm or with the 

 dealer. The state of Illinois has started this inspection in as 

 pleasant a way as possible, and after a while it will be police 

 powers and they wi41 say, '' Your creamery has got to be kept 

 clean," and so and so, and you might just as well take it pleas- 

 antly and clean it. We are trying to bring it to you in a kindly, 

 pleasant way for the first two years. This association will now 

 go before the legislature and ask that these gentlemen who are 

 yi siting the farms may be clothed w^ith police powers, and may 

 say to you you shall do it or you must go out of business, for 

 we must haye the best and purest food on the market. We pay 

 no attention to the other states, but go along with our own bat- 

 tleship, and we can only do this by co-operating one with the 

 oth.er. In a kindly way we haye asked you to clean up your 

 places, but some time in the future you will find you must do it. 



Mr. Gloyer : — The work is being accepted by the creamery 

 men, the operators of creameries; we haye receiyed no letters 



