I04 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Wednesday Afternoon, January 8, 1902 



Convention called to order for the afternoon session. 



President in the chair. 



By the President: Mr. Schlappi, who gave us; the talk yesterday 

 afternoon on the test of the different breeds at the Pan-American Ex- 

 position at Buffalo, is under the impression that some of you understood 

 him to say that the amount of the profits he gave were for the year. 

 That is not correct; they were for the period he was testing there at 

 Buffalo. 



We will now have a paper by Prof. Erf. 



DIFFERENT METHODS OF CREAM SEPARATION, 



BY PROF. OSCAR ERF, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. 



Gentlemen: 



lam very glad to meet the dairymen of Illinois again, and I want to 

 say that I have a subject today which is a little bit censitive in cer- 

 tain communities of the State. Ycu know you are liable to tread on some- 

 body's bunions when you talk of cream separation. But I think that the 

 Hairymen are perfectly familiar with the separation, so that I won't have 

 to hesittate in this community, at any rate, to talk on the subject. 



Of the many inquiries that we receive at the State University, per- 

 taining to dairying, the most of them of recent years have been questions 

 delating to the control and economy of cream separation. Since the in- 

 troduction of the farm separator or cream gathering system in creameries, 

 the problem often occurs to many dairymen whether it pays to purchase 



