44 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



In behalf of our Association, we thank you for giving us a place on 

 your program, that we might have a chance to show what we are doing. 

 It is to the interest of both Associations to work harmoniously, for we 

 -can accomplish much more thereby. 



DISCUSSION. 



By the President. — Is your Association the oldest of the three coun- 

 ties? 



A. — No sir, Sangamon County is older. 



Mr. Glover. — Has your Association ever calculated how much time 

 -is wasted on the different farms in Illinois churning? To explain my 

 question. We were making a visit in the country and went to a farm 

 house and found a lady churning; said she churned from three to four 

 and a half to six hours on one churn. She said she never got it in less 

 than two hours and it usually took to three o'clock in the afternoon to 

 complete churning. Have you ever estimated the amount of time that 

 was wasted? 



A. — I think she could have saved a good deal of time by commencing 

 at the bottom and learning how to make her butter. ' It doesn't take three 

 hours to make your butter, if she knows the temperature and the way 

 to make it and manage it from start to finish. There may be a great deal 

 of time wasted. I never studied it. 



Mr. Glover. — They usually use their fingers for the temperature? 



A. — No, a thermometer. 



Mrs. Purviance. — How many ladies have you seen test it with their 

 fingers? 



Mr. Glover. — Ask me how many test it with a thermometer. I haven't 

 seen many ladies using a thermometer. I usually find that system. They 

 shake the milk, push it off into a dish and dip in their finger, and I think 

 that is pretty much in vogue. The milk was on the back of the stove and 

 felt once in a while. 



Mrs. Purviance. — In Logan County we are up-to-date. In some coun- 

 ties that may be so. 



