1 86 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



is produced in the private dairy, where all the modern ap- 

 pliances, and the skill to use them, are at hand, but such a 

 result requires an individual plant on a large scale, and even 

 then in nine cases out of ten during portions of the year, 

 there is an unavoidable lack of uniformity in the product. The 

 premium butter makers well know that the finest, quickest 

 flavored butter is made only from the milk of cows fresh in 

 milk, and that the most skillful manipulation known to modern 

 scientific butter making cannot impart that most desirable 

 quality to butter made from the milk of cows in the advanced 

 stages of gestation. If the average dairyman is oblivious to 

 this fact, his cunning adversary, the butterine manufacturer, is 

 not; he realizes that his purchases of butter must be made from 

 the creamery that carries on winter dairying, and where the 

 cows are fresh; in fact he will buy no other, but is willing to 

 pay the highest price for this, that he may give to his neutral 

 the flavor of the real stuff. I have often thought during our 

 fight with butterine and oleo what a providential thing it was 

 for the farmer that this fine aroma can be produced from no 

 other source. Up to the present time science has not been able 

 to counterfeit it, although all the sources at her command have 

 been brought in play, stimulated by the gold of the counter 

 feiters of genuine butter. 



A well organized co-operative system is the only remedy. 

 Co-operation properly directed means strength, stability and 

 success. The good effects of the co-operative creamery are 

 seen in the patron's herd of cattle; as a natural consequence the 

 cows are improved in in quality, because he measures the worth 

 of his cows by the quantity of cream they produce. He can 

 measure his cows by the spaces of cream, very much as Mr. 

 Hiram Smith does his acres in milk, and the first thing he does 

 is to discard the unprofitable cows and replace them with better 

 stock. There is much more in this item than may appear at 

 first sight : it affords the dairyman an easy method of testing his 

 cows with no increase of labor; in fact it compels him as a mat- 





