ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. j I y 



takes more care and skill to make butter than any other article of food 

 that I know of, and every thing must be perfect in the creamery. 



My observation shows me that there are some buttermakers who 

 expect too much from patrons; too much, for the reason that they do not 

 set them a good example. There is no better example, and no better 

 way to educate patroDS than to have your factory in such a condition that 

 when they come into it they will stand in admiration of its purity and 

 neatness. And then the traveling man likes to see a nice, well kept fac- 

 tory, and when they go to one they go away and talk about it. The but- 

 termaker who does not visit other factories and has no chance to com- 

 pare his factory with others, does not perhaps realize the great differ- 

 ence there is in the condition of these factories. Now we notice the round 

 corners in the factory; we used to make them when as boys we did the 

 fall plowing, and had to go over them again. We notice the oil on the en- 

 gine and separators; the bunch of waste in the corner; the rubbish in 

 the engine room, and the pieces of belt and other articles on the window 

 sill. These are very little things, but they count largely in the appear- 

 ance of the factory. Again, we notice the appearance of the buttermaker. 

 It is not necessary that the buttermaker wear a white collar and cuffs 

 while at work in the factory, but it is essential that his clothing is 

 clean. 



Let me give you an illustration of what I mean: One time a large 

 creamery company wanted a foreman, and their manager was sent to 

 another county to hire a buttermaker who had quite a good reputation, 

 but unfortunately that buttermakers appearance, in the matter of clean- 

 liness of his wearing apparel, disgusted the manager, and he came away 

 without making him an offer. The buttermaker was out six hundred dol- 

 lars, as that was the difference between the salary he was getting and 

 that he would have been oflered. Six hundred dollars would have done a 

 lot of washing. 



Buttermaking is not just being able to make a fancy article of but- 

 ter: there are hundreds of butterniake-rs out of a Job who call make 



