150 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Friday Afternoon, January 21 



MARKET MILK. 



By 



L. A. Spies, St. Jacob, III. 



Chairman : I am sorry that more dairymen have not avail- 

 ed themselves of the opportunity of being here this afternoon. 

 It may be possible that it is because of the weather, the cows 

 may be cold and need more attention. 



We are delighted this afternoon to have with us Mr. Spies, 

 President of the Union Dairy Company of St. Louis. He has 

 done more for this country in the Department of Dairy Industry 

 than any man I know of. He has been plugging away at it for 

 many years, and I am glad to say that it has given results, and 

 we all wish him a long and prosperous future. 



Mr. L. A. Spies : Mr. Chairman and Fellow Dairymen : 

 Eighty per cent of the city milk supply is now drawn from the 

 country while thirty years ago it was produced within the city 

 limits; then the driver carried the milk in bulk, dipped it with 

 a measure from the can into the patron's pitcher. Science has 

 taught the people that the milk becomes infected with all kinds 

 of microbes while thus exposed. The milk is now delivered in 

 bottles, and this is a source of great worry and expense to the 

 dealers, owing to the great loss of bottles from breakage and 

 oth^r source. The Company with which I am connected loses 

 $8,000.00 annually in spite of checking the drivers out and in. 



All dealers of St. Louis formed a Bottlers' Association, 

 have a clearing house where they deliver all stray bottles, re- 

 ceive 2 cents per dozen and pay 6 cents per dozen for their own 

 sorted out. Recently the larger dairies of St. Louis have ac- 

 quired receiving stations along the various railroads where pas- 

 teurizers and ice machines have been installed. The milk is 

 carefully handled and kept until train time. This method gives 



