102 ILLINOIS dairymen's ASSOCIATION. 



cheese they are now consuming, at prices that will pay the manufacturer and 

 pay the farmer. 



Mr. Beeks : There are some things that the people of this world have to 

 learn to eat ; among those are oysters and tomatoes and a good many other 

 things, but I venture the assertion that there is not a child born in this coun- 

 try that would not eat cheese in the first years of its life ; you don't have to 

 teach anybody to eat it, but there is not a house wife in the state of Illinois 

 that can tell you where to go to get good cheese. My wife, every week of 

 her life, asks where she can get it. I know of no place except where it is 

 made. 



Secretary McGlincy : I desire to call the attention of the Association 

 to an article entitled " Facts," which may be of interest to some of the farm- 

 ers or the creamery men here. It is in relation to some figures from Iowa, 

 as follows : 



The " shortage " question, as it is agitated among the gathered cream 

 creameries, is certainly bringing out much valuable knowledge. What we 

 do not know about cows, cream and butter, would make a book ; what we do 

 know is only a primer. The test plan of paying for the cream according to 

 its butter value is disclosing a very wide range of difference in the value of 

 cream. 



The Charitan, Iowa, Creamery, gives the following table, showing the 

 range of value in 36 different lots of cream the last half of October. 



The first column of figures is the number *6f the patron ; the second col- 

 umn the number of inches of cream gauge measure ; the third column the 

 number of pounds of butter made ; fourth column number of ounces of but- 

 ter to the gauge inch : 



NO. 





NO. INCHES 



NO. 



POUNDS OF 



NO. OUNC 



PATRON. 



CREAM. 



BUTTER. 



THE GA1 



1 



41 



4 lbs, 7 ozs 



15 



2 



If 



1 



15 



18 



3 



4i 



31 



3 

 4 



7 



13 



4 



2 



24 



5 



91 



12 



3 



20 



6 



6i 



6 



8 



16 



7 



6 



7 



2 



19 



8 



6f 



9 



4 



22 



9 



3i 



3 



8 



16 



10 



2f 



3 



4 



19 



11 



H 



1 



11 



18 



12 



51 



7 



3 



20 



13 



16 



5 



17 

 5 





17 



14 



15 



19 



15 



......... 4i 



3 



1 



IH 



16 



4 



2 



4 



9 



17 



8 



10 





20 



18 



3 



2 



4 



12 



19 



51 



6i 



2 

 3 



15 



9 



20 



15 



10 



21 



61 



8 



9 



18 



22 



3 



2 



7 



13 



23 



Ill 



10 



4 



14 



24 



21 



2 



1 



12 



25 



26 



27 



10 



17 



26 



9i 



5 



3 



9 



