86 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



QUALITY IN BUTTER AND HOW TO SECURE IT. 



By N, W. Hepburn. 



There has been some httle misunderstanding regarding the 

 subject of this address as it appears on the program and I am 

 following your secretary's first suggestion of a topic, namely, 

 that of quality in butter and how to secure it. In accqDting 

 such an invitation I realize full well the largeness of the task 

 and my total inability to adequately treat the subject. B'or while 

 the subject of quality in butter has been discussed for almost 

 twenty years at almost every important meeting held in the 

 name of the dairymen it is being solved only little by little. 



In thinking of the annual meeting of the Dairymen's Asso- 

 ciation in the state of Illinois, it has seemed to me that one of 

 the reasons for this annual gathering is to collect and compile 

 material which is suggestive of the Current thought running 

 through the minds of those who are thinking most about dairy- 

 ing and its problems. If this is true, I should say at the outset 

 that the dairying manufacturing interests of our state have dur- 

 ing the last four years been making history and progress which 

 is well worth recording. It is true that large interests and large 

 bodies move slowly and what seems in itself only a small frac- 

 tion of what should be done aggregates in total an immeasur- 

 able quantity. In order to have a proper perspective for what 

 [ want to say, let me give you briefly that part of the history, 

 of dairying- in the state of Illinois which relates particularly to 

 the manufacturing interests. 



For our purposes the industry may be said to have begun in 

 this country with the first importation of dairy cattle, which was 

 about the year 1824. 



It is of interest and importance for us to know that in spite 

 of the fact that the practice of the industry is old in years, the 

 science of the industry is new and its development is practically 

 within the memory of everyone of us. Some of the first al-/ 



