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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Mr. Gurler: You think the milk is not in good enough condition to 

 make cheese? 



A. That's just what I think. Yes sir. 



Mr. Carpenter: What would be the effect on the milk, by sending it 

 to the cream separator and putting the milk together again? Would it 

 Improve the milk? 



A. That would be taking the animal by the tail instead of by the 

 horns. The only way out of it is to see that the milk is milked in as 

 cleanly a manner as possible, properly aired and cooled and cared for. 

 I don't believe in getting the filth and all kinds of germs in first and 

 then get it out again. 



Mr. Monrad: I think Mr. Aderhold just hit the mark right. The 

 only milk I honestly believe that we have in Illinois which is fit to 

 make cheese, is that which is prepared for shipment to the large city 

 of Chicago. The trouble is that the farmers here, when they stop ship- 

 ping to Chicago and take their milk over to the creameries say, "Oh, 

 anything is good enough for the creamery." Now they do that, for 

 they have told me so time and time again. They said they would rather 

 ship to creameries because it makes no difference to them. If they de- 

 liver milk to the creameries as carefully as they prepared it for shipping 

 to Chicago, all the buttermakers would make better butter, it would have 

 better keeping qualities, and then Mr. Aderhold could make cheese if he 

 wanted to. 



But in that locality the difficulty is that of unrest. The farmers 

 sometimes think they will ship to Chicago and then get tired and go to 

 the creamery, and that is the big mistake. The cheese industry of Illi- 

 nois, if I may express my opinion, Mr. President, the cheese possibili- 

 ties please, are greater certainly and would be more natural to develop in 

 the central part. We have only a few factories in Illinois, comparatively 

 few cheese factories that have a local market. I think it would be uphill 

 work for a man to start making cheese in Illinois and send it to the open 

 market in Chicago, just on account of the lack of quality or market. 



Mr. Gurler: What Monrad says in regard to the milk coming to the 

 creameries is too true. I think we should have just as good milk at the 



