72 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



butte-r sells one to five cents below quotations and that is an en- 

 ormous loss. 



Look at the undesirable country butter that we find every 

 year in our country stores; car loads of it are dumped into our 

 soap factories. Just as long as we make the cow tributary to 

 the soap factories, just so long dairying will not be profitable. 

 Look at the butter that is dumped into these factories at 15 cents 

 below quotations. Are we not losing millions of dollars here 

 annually? With the cheese you have the same proposition; also 

 the milk is not bringing the price good milk should bring. 



The total milk production in the United States in 1903 was 

 sixty-seven billion pounds of milk which was distributed into 

 butter, cheese and condensed milk. Let us get down to business 

 here. Now suppose we got a little higher price by taking better 

 care of our milk and, therefore, being able to make better dairy 

 products. Suppose our creameries begin to grade their milk and 

 cream. In other words suppose they are putting a premium on 

 the production of good clean milk, and suppose we are getting 

 out a good share of this country butter, and let us assume that 

 the butter will average 2 cents higher per pound. Let us assume 

 the same thing for cheese, a 2-cent raise. Let us assume that the 

 better care of the dairy farmers enables to put a more sanitary 

 milk on the market for direct consumption, that is milk that will 

 bring i cent more per quart, here is the result : 



Gain in butter sales. . . .$ 33,000,000 

 Gains in cheese sales . . . 5,000,000 

 Gains in milk sales.... 104,000,000 



$142,000,000 for this country. 



This may look exaggerated, but if you come to study this 

 matter out, these figures are entirely within the limits of possi- 

 bility. 



Take the State of Illinois, the total production of milk 

 amounts to 6 per cent of the total for the entire country. This 

 would be eight and half million dollars for the State of Illinois. 

 We would gain this by the proper care of milk. It is worth 



