76 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



than in butter. The last to surrender of all the list of house- 

 wifery manufactures, that compound of a hundred secrets 

 aad a thousand odors, known as dairy butter, is about to be- 

 come a thing- of the past. We rejoice with our ladies that 

 they are to be freed from the drudgery of making it, and with 

 ourselves that we are to escape the danger of eating it, for all 

 the care of the most painstaking and skillful private butter- 

 m<aker availed for nothing when her nicely marked and daintly 

 moulded rolls were unceremoniously dumped by the local 

 storekeeper into the midst of the frowy mass or rancid corrup- 

 tion known as store butter. 



We shall not need to educate the general public to make 

 fancy butter or cheese, but have and shall continue to have 

 need for a comparatively large number of skilled operatives 

 for the factory work. It is doubtless true that always the 

 very finest dairy products, whether in butter of cheese, will 

 come from some of the extensive private dairies, but that the 

 great mass, while not the very first in quality, will be uni- 

 formly fine and will be made in factories. 



Now, as always, the great supply of milk, either for the 

 t]ade, or for butter, or for cheese, comes from thousands of 

 farms. This must always be, and in the economic production 

 of milk, and in its proper handling and delivery is crying need 

 for popular instruction. 



T will not in this place or at this time discuss what the 

 State might, or ought to do, by way of legal standards, oflQciai 

 inspections, expert supervision or itinerant instruction to im- 

 prove the quality of our dairy products. Doubtless some or 

 all of these methods might be employed to the education of 

 the public, and therefore to the benefit alike of the consumer 

 and of the producer. I would speak more especially of such 

 instruction in connection with our great educational institu- 

 tions. 



Education is coming to have a new meaning in the world. 

 It is coming to mean a training in any or all of those things 

 that the world needs, whether it be to know, to think, 'to 

 teach, or to do. With the advent of the new education, labor 

 is becoming respectable, if it be good labor and directed to 

 a worthy end, and the labor and the man will be judged by the 

 quality of the product. Do you say that this is materializing 



