160 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Prof. Farrington: Yes, sir, the best men I have to do 

 with. That has been my experience in trying to improve the 

 quality of the milk at our creamery. The farmers around 

 Madison have not been dairying, but we are trying to get them 

 into dairy work. We only get about 6,000 pounds of milk 

 from some 366 cows, and that is only about 6 cows to a patron 

 — not very large dairying. But they are increasing the num- 

 ber of their cows and going into the dairy, more especially 

 when we can tell them that a pound of butter is worth mor?.* 

 than a bushel of oats or a bushel of potatoes. Then they begin 

 to see that it is valuable to produce milk — more money in it. 



Mr. Judd : Do you buy the milk by the hundred pounds, 

 or do you make the butter? 



Prof. Farrington : We pay for the milk on the basis of the 

 Elgin price of butter. We pay a cent and a half below Elgin 

 for butter fat. If the Elgin price of butter for the month is 

 twenty cents, we pay the patron 18.5 cents for the butter fat; 

 that is the system we have adopted. 



Mr. Johnson: Why don't you pay so much a hundred foL' 

 your milk, as your neighbors do? 



Prof. Farrington: We do; we figure out that way. 

 . Mr. Johnson : Do you figure that out to your patrons? 



Prof. Farrington: That is the way they figure, yes. 

 They can figure the price they receive per one hundred a good 

 deal better than they can the price they receive per pound of 

 butter fat. They always take the money and. see how much 

 they have per hundred pounds of milk. We always figure on 

 the basis of butter fat, but we also put on the statement that 

 they brought in a certain number of pounds of milk, and they 

 receive a certain amount for that milk and they divide the 

 pounds of milk by the money and find out how many hundred 

 pounds. 



Mr. Johnson: Don't you think it would be better to put 

 it on the statement for them? 



Prof. Farrington : It might be, but they have always been 

 able to make that calculation themselves. 



A Member: People are more enlightened in Wisconsin 

 than they are here. 



Mr. Blount: When a can of milk is brought to the cream- 

 ery I have found that the richest milk was frozen and if it 



