70 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Now it is not my intention at this time to go into the details 

 of sanitary milk production for, after all, I believe the average 

 dairyman knows just as well as we do how to produce sanitary 

 milk. He knows he must keep germs out if he is to keep milk 

 clean. It is not so much ignorance as it is negligence. It is ig- 

 norance of the enormous importance of doing it in the right way. 

 It is along this line that I shall talk more, rather than along the 

 line of the production of clean milk. For convenience I have 

 put down a few points, I have divided my subject into three 

 parts : 



Financial significance of quality. 



Producers' responsibility, and 



Vital factors in the production of clean milk. 



This has all been covered by the previous speaker, and the 

 best I can do is to make you look at it from a different angle, that 

 is all I can do; this relation of care to quality. You will agree 

 with me that there can be no quaHty unless there is care. Unless 

 we take the proper care of the milk we cannot expect good milk. 

 It is impossible to have it. Ihere is a natural law of cause and 

 effect and we cannot get around it, and this can be easily shown, 

 the relation between care and quality is so intimate that, for in- 

 stance, if we visit the principal dairies supplying any town or 

 city. Take Vandalia for instance, if we visit these dairies and 

 inspect them, we do not have to go to Vandalia, we know the 

 quality of the milk consumed. You examine milk that is received 

 here and you can tell what kind of care the milk has received on 

 the farm. That is your relation. The butter judge examines 

 butter at the market end, he doesn't have to go to the creamery, 

 he can tell the cause of the trouble right away. There is the 

 relation of care and quality. 



If you take a trip through the curing room of a cheese fac- 

 tory and you see the ends of the cheese bulging, or if in boxes 

 and raise the covers you know right away that the cheese was 

 made from milk that has not received the proper care; it was 

 gasy milk that went into that cheese. 



If you see your condensaries receive returned milk that was 



