ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. ' 179 



I would like to make a statement about what Mr. Lee said 

 a moment ago. I want to say to you here that one 

 thing that makes our work unpleasant, that makes me say that 

 if ever I get out of this work, back on the farm 1 will go, is to 

 spend our time nights trying to get the work ready for the stud- 

 ents, planning work for the people at home or in field work, and 

 ithen have them as suspicious of us as though we wanted to injure 

 them. We are not selling patent medicines, lightning rods or 

 hand separators. We are honest and square. We may some- 

 times have visions, but you don't follow us very far. 



THE RELATION OF THE FARMER TO BETTER MILK. 



By J. M. Trueman, University of Illinois. 



Almost every issue of every dairy paper contains an article 

 or a paragraph on this subject. Rules for producing clean milk 

 ihave been written and rewritten time and again. There can be 

 no doubt that this continued repetition has produced some effect, 

 land that more dairies are producing clean milk than was the case 

 ten years ago. I will not, therefore, in this address, take up the 

 detailed account of how milk should be handled on the farm, but 

 rather attempt to get at some of the reasons for present conditions 

 and seek for some remedy that may be applied to the general situa- 

 tion. 



In beginning the discussion of this problem we must first 

 settle a few questions that are often asked by the farmer. First — 

 does the milk that is produced on the ordinary dairy farm con- 

 tain much dirt anyway ? The barns ar e no worse than they have 

 been for years ; why all this sudden outcry against the present 

 conditions? Without stopping to explain the suddenness of the 

 outcry, let me ask the farmer a few questions. Is your barnyard 

 drained and graded, so that the cows are not obliged to wade 

 knee deep in mud and manure? Is your barn well lighted and 

 ventilated, so that the air may be pure and so that you can see 



