2i8 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



not the thing in your section. You are getting high prices for 

 your milk, and it wih be well to take the advice of those who 

 have the knowledge. Even if it costs a little more to make, when 

 you think of the market, you are getting much more for your 

 milk and you can afford to do without the silo. 



The question that comes up in our conventions, especially 

 in the localities where there are Scotchmen, is the turnip ques- 

 tion. The Scotch and the turnip are connected in some kind of 

 way. Where you get Scotch blood, you get the turnip. They 

 will feed them to the dairy cow to the injury of the cheese and 

 butter. The Scotchman thinks it is all right and insists the 

 turnip does not flavor the cheese and butter. They way that has 

 been settled in Canada in some factories is this, the man that 

 persists in bringing that milk, binds himself to pay for the losses 

 in handling his cheese. The cheese up there is guaranteed by 

 the maker. If he makes a batch of bad cheese, he has to stand 

 the loss. If a batch of milk is turnipy and they take that milk 

 the man has to stand the loss if it injures the cheese. If you 

 could make some such kind of an arrangement here, I think it 

 might be satisfactory on both sides. 



In speaking on creamery buttermaking, the subject I was 

 to talk about, it is too big a subject for me to accomplish in a 

 short time. It would take a whole day to say all I ought to say 

 on that subject. We cannot consider all the ground, and will 

 only touch on some of the points that perhaps would need dis- 

 cussion, and possibly you can think of other points that ought to 

 be brought up. I will answer any questions I can, and if I can- 

 not answer the questions, I will refer you to some one else. 



In speaking upon this subject I am aware that it is too big 

 a question to discuss exhaustively in the time allotted, even if the 

 audience had the patience to listen. 



In districts where dairying is extensively carried on some 

 form of combination among dairymen is certain to take place, 

 and the desirability of such community of interests is too obvious 

 to need any arguments to support it. In my opinion the great 

 weakness of all kinds of cooperative dairy work is the selfishne.-s 



