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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



found in some creameries the cream room is dark so that you can hardly 

 see the vat, and he will have the windows closed and so dirty you can't 

 see through them. It isn't built right, but while our jurisdiction may not 

 go to the construction of the building, only the sanitary conditions, it 

 does go into the* construction of the building and the arrangement of the 

 place where it prevents good sanitary conditions. Where we find vats 

 only two inches from the floor and rot thoroughly cleaned, we want it 

 raised and cleaned. Where we find the floor so water congregates in the 

 center, we don't want the cream vat put on the floor where the, sewerage 

 runs under them. Where the shaft and pulley and hangers are set di- 

 rectly over a creamery receiving vat, we would like to have that removed. 



When construction and all these things have been gone over and 

 everything said about it, I have come to this conclusion in my short in- 

 spection of creameries: The most prominent factor in the creamery is 

 the man who does the cleaning. I find a difference in men. One man can 

 go over his creamery and explain it all to me and the other man don't 

 seem to have the knack of studying it at all. Some men have a natural 

 knack of details, and a man that has none never can make a clean cream- 

 eryman in my opinion. He has got to study details, and be methodical, 

 and when things are once cleaned, keep them clean. 



I have also found men of this sort: They wilj walk around and 

 splash around and keep the water running all the time. I found in these 

 places that that was the way they cleaned, let the water run all the time. 

 I went and took up the cover to the drain and would find it dirty all around 

 the sides, not corroded, but the dirt had not been removed in some time. 

 He had an idea, in thoroughly washing with waterthat was sufficient. He 

 had not studies the idea of scrubbing the drain. He said it did\not smell. 

 In other creameries I have found such drains scrupulously clean. 



In regard to wood floors, we don't commend wood floors, and if they 

 have them they must keep them clean. Some men don't let the water 

 run all the time, and yet their .floors are clean. They use a mop and a 

 brush, and when he.' gets through that floor is dry. Another man's place 



