ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 245 



REPORT 



OF THE. 



Fifth Annual Butter Fair of the Sanga 



mon County Butter Makers' 



Association 



Maple Grove Farm, April 15, 1903. 



For six years the wives and daughters of the Sangamon county 

 farmers have made a study of scientific butter making and have held 

 monthly meetings at which the subject has been discussed in its every 

 phase The result has been very perceptible in a notable improvement in 

 the quality of butter offered on the market by the farm wives of "Old 

 Sangamon." The ladies are very proud of their organization, it being the 

 only association of women buttermakers in the country. Each year they 

 have held a fair and on February 19th the fifth annual fair of Sangamon 

 County Buttermakers Association was opened at the Japanese Home in 

 the City of Springfield, with an exhibit which excelled in merit all pre- 

 vious efforts of the organization. Officers of the association were pleased 

 and surprised at the excellent showing made in spite of severe weather 

 and the fact that the country roads were almost impassable. Judging 

 from the interest manifested in the show, if the weather had been favor- 

 able and roads passable the display would have been simply enormous 



On long tables extending the entire length of the hall, in uniform 

 white crocks, each holding three pounds, arranged in their several classes, 

 were hundreds of pounds of butter. So much butter of like quality was 

 probably never before gathered together in an exhibit by women. One 

 of the first exhibits to attract the eye of the visitor was a lot of 

 ornamental butter in a fine glass case, full of golden works of art, which 



