ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



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Up in Wisconsin they were making filled cheese. Got those little cen- 

 trifugal separa-to^s and some cotton seed oil and one thing and another 

 and heated it and called it cream cheese There was not a bit of butter 

 fat in it. We got together and we went *to the legislature and spoke to 

 all our representatives and we told them we want, filled cheese declared ille- 

 gal — and we meant it. We got that legislature to pass a law to make it 

 illegal in Wisconsin. If you want .:o make skim milk cheese you got to 

 make it 9-inches round and 9 inches high every time and then when you 

 see it on the market you know it is skim milk cheese — and they don't put 

 any on the market. The filled cheese people are up ag-.iinst i.l, and what 

 do you think we had to do? Make a better cheese. They sent men to 

 Canada and stood them around there to see what they were doing that they 

 could make be.ttsr cheese. We got $2,000 from the legislature and spent 

 $1,600 in investigations. Sent some men to New York and took soundings 

 and such. Wisconsin has as good water as New York. Why can't we do 

 as well as New York? And it is the same with you fellows in Illinois. 

 You can do the same, if you go at it right. We educate these young men 

 in the schools of New Yoik and Canadi and brought them back, and they 

 went into the factories and took in thf milk at the weigh scales in the morn- 

 ing and took a little sample of every n an"s milk, and when the evening 

 came these samples were all made and saw how good they were. That is 

 the Wisconsin curd test. 



We made that cheese all the way through and then invited the patrons 

 and gave them a good talking to so they would give us good milk to make 

 good cheese. We spent $1,600 to get that, but we made 65,000,000 pounds of 

 cheese that year and it brought a cent more that year than New York cheese 

 and the same price as the Canadian cheese brought. So our experiment 

 paid. That's what they do. The Holstein men were in with this hand in 

 hand and the Guernsey men and we went in on the grand march and won. 

 An English company bought the cheese ,ak along that line of road and put 

 it in a good big vessel and sold it in London, and it is so uniform you would 

 think that it was all made at one factory. Sold it ail in London. 



