ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



markets that they don't produce more milk. Six cans the high- 

 est dairy here? 



A : — I can't account for it. 



O : — You get the same price here that we do for milk and 

 our land is twice the price of yours. There isn't a better 

 opportunity than you've got right here. 



A : — I assure you I should like to see the change. It 

 dropped out some last fall on account of the condensing factory 

 insisting on running on a contract system, which a great number 

 of the farmers opposed. They would not bind themselves. 



O : — How do you mean ? 



A: — Sign a contract to deliver so much milk and so on, 

 care of the. cow barns, etc. Everything the contract contained 

 was done for the farmers own benefit. I hope this thing will 

 revive. I know a good many farmers, friends of mine, are sorry 

 now that they did not sign the contract. He doesn't hear that 

 jingle in his pocket now. 



A Member : — Any experience in skimming stations. Any- 

 one running a skimming station to a creamery? 



A : — There are some in the audience more experienced on 

 that question than I am. A_s much as I know there is none. 



Q : — Not one here in the county, but all over the state ? 



A : — As far as I know there is none around here. 



Mr. Spies: — Skimming station, you mean? 



A : — Not farm separator, but build up skimming stations to 

 hold the cream to take to the creamery afterwards. 



A : — Mr. Lee could answer that question. 



Mr. Newman : — It is simply run just as you run your cen- 

 tral plant, without the churn. 



Q : — No, I mean to be a benefit to the creamery. 



A : — Why it is simply located a distance convenient to col- 

 lect the cream. You skim the milk that you have on your wagon, 

 and take that cream from this skimming station to the plant. 



