

I I4 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



and the new — the former in full working operation, the latter about 

 completed and in readiness for occupation. 



If you will kindly inform us when we may expect a visit from your 

 members, we will have an officer of the company in attendance. 

 Yours truly, 



The StoverManufacturing Co., 



D. C. Stover, Pres. 



we nave no cpen session tomorrow morning, to allow the members 

 to inspect the butter room and macninery nan. 1 tnink between ten and 

 eleven o'clock tomorrow morning would be very convenient to visit 

 the Stover Manufacturing Company s plant, and there will be some one 

 there to show you through. I am sure we thank them for their very 

 cordial invitation. ! 



CRE,AME,RY BUTTE,RMAKE,RS AS SE,EN BY THE 

 TRAVELING SALESMAN 



BY F. A. LEIGHTON, NEW HAMPTON, IOWA. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Illinois State Dairy Associa- 

 tion: 



It was with a great deal of timidity that I consented to read a paper at 

 this convention. The State of Illinois, and especially this Elgin district, 

 is so far advanced in dairying that it would be presumptuous for a resi- 

 dent of Iowa to come here and attempt to tell you how to improve your 

 butter, and for that reason I shall not be able to give you any points 

 which will enable you to make better butter than you are making at 

 present. However, I am of the opinion that not all of the Illinois cream- 

 eries or Illinois buttermakers are as good as they could be made, and as 

 my subject is butter making from a travelingman's standpoint, I shall 



