t y Q ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



conditions of creameries, requires the commissioner to present to the 

 governor at least once a year, the sanitary conditions of all the cream- 

 eries in the state. We found that was impossible. Of course in its na- 

 ture, it is a police system, and some of the people feel as if one of Pin- 

 kerton's detectives were after them. But that is! not the desire of the 

 commission. We don't want the creamery men to think so for/a min- 

 ute. Whent we go to the creameries, what we want is to have a friendly 

 chat concerning- the condition of the creamery, and any suggestions we 

 can recommend, or any suggestions 'they can recommend to us we would 

 be glad to have them. After we have gone, accept our suggestions in a 

 friendly way and fix up, as you will find it is to your interests do so in 

 the end. 



We report the creamery as either good, fair, poor, very bad. I find 

 that this is the method of inspection in other states, and we did that, but 

 finally we have decided to make a more specific or more detailed report 

 in regard to creameries. I might say right here that a great deal of 

 complaint ha£ been made by people that are interested in this work, ask- 

 ing me why we don't prosecute the unsanitary creameries and close them 

 up. You know a good many of the creameries in this state, their build- 

 ings are old, farm buildings, that have been running along for a great 

 many years, and while the creamery people on the whole have met in a 

 friendly way after they have found out our idea, we desire 1 to educate 

 them to it. In this blessed day of prosperity they find it better to sell all 

 the milk they get and not manufacture it. They say they are not getting 

 much for their milk and can't fix up. We find the condition of the 

 buildings on the inside so that they will have to have time to fix them 

 up. It would not be fair to jump en them right away. 



This law, as I said, compels the commissioner to present his report 

 once a year. It does not say what is meant by ''sanitary conditions," 

 that is left to the judgment of the commissioner. It seems to me that 

 they wisely left that question to be filled in by the inspectors. They have 

 not adopted a standard; they could have adopted the opinion of one 



