182 .' ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Every farmer does not feel that way. We have all over this 

 country men who are doing their best not only to meet the demand 

 for better milk, but to create a demand. A few men who were 

 favorably situated or had the pluck to undertake the work, have 

 established sanitary dairies that are the pride of every man who 

 is working for better milk. Our own state contains a number to 

 which we can point with satisfaction that are models in every 

 way. These models, however, have not always proved an inspir- 

 ation to the farmer. He has read about the expensive stables and 

 dairy houses ; about the great amount of labor employed and the 

 expensive apparatus used, and it has discouraged him. He has 

 not the capital to do the things that way. Perhaps he has not 

 the business ability. He is a plain, level headed farmer and 

 knows that he could easily spend more money on his dairy than 

 he could get back, so he takes the safe course and continues on in 

 the old way. 



But the old way will not always do. There is a movement 

 afoot that has the whole force of an awakened nation behind it, 

 that demands pure food and milk will not be left out. A few 

 weeks ago in talking with a manager of a large restaurant in a 

 large city in a neighboring state, he said with great emphasis : "1 

 can get good meat and good fruit and good vegetables, but I can 

 not get good cream and butter. Why is it ? What was I to tell 

 that man ? That the farmers of this great progressive couniry 

 do not care enough about the milk they produce to keep it clean ? 

 Or was I to tell him that the dealer from whom he bought his sup- 

 plies does not run his creamery right and spoils the cream in get- 

 ting it separated from the milk and in pasteurizing it. Or was I 

 to lay the fault at the door of the hurried business man who can 

 not take time to demand that he be given a good article, but eats 

 the poor cream and the rancid butter and grumbles his wav back 

 to business. As a matter of fact there is fault in all three places, 

 and you must not put it all on the farmer. It is with him, however, 

 that I must deal today and leave the careless creameryman and the 

 unthinking public to a future time. 



The same restaurant manager referred to above, objects seri- 



