ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 29 



ADDRESS. 



J. T. Biegler, Sigel, III. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: — 



I assure you it gives me great pleasure to make a few re- 

 marks here this evening. I. don't intend to detain you very 

 long, but I will show you that with a little creamery, quite a good 

 deal of money can be made for the farmer. I have my statistics 

 here and will show you. 



Now, I wish to say in the beginning, that any remark I 

 may make that may seem to reflect, that you please overlook it, 

 for that is not my intent. The intent is to show you what we 

 did withour creamery, and, of course, in running a creamery, like 

 anything else, if you want to run it successfully, you must work 

 for it. That is what we had to do at Sigel. We had to compere 

 with the condenser here, and w*e tried to prevent them from get- 

 ting all we could from our creamery. 



When we bought it, it was not in good condition. Our 

 milk receipts were low. The condenser had come here, and their 

 agent had a horse and buggy to go through the country every 

 day, and with the inducement they offered, and a good many of 

 the farmers being tired of the creamery and the test and tiie 

 price for the milk, were willing to give it a trial, and at one time 

 when I took charge, they were getting almost all of the milk. 

 But we pitched in and did everything that we could. We tried 

 an inducement for every hundred pounds that any hauler would 

 bring outside of his own milk. That, of course, took quite a 

 little bit of money from the stockholders, and it also helped to 

 increase the receipts of our milk. 



On January 1st, 1905, the total receipts of the milk for the 

 month were 81,374 pounds of milk; the butter made by the test, 

 3,571, and by the churn, 4,173 pounds. The receipts for butter, 

 $1,209.85. Paid to the patrons, $1,039.21. The earnings for 



