FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 95 



A brief description of the method of conducting" this class 

 may not be out of place. Thirty-two samples of cream were col- 

 lected at the Twin City Creamery representing" all the varieties 

 from good to very bad cream. One-half of these samples were 

 churned and made into butter in the regular manner. On the 

 following day the butter and a part of the sample of cream 

 from which it came were passed around for examination by the 

 members of the creamery club assembled, at which time all in- 

 formation concerning the sample of cream was given by one of 

 the instructors, and at the sam^e time a score was assigned to 

 each piece of butter. It should be noted that this was the meet- 

 ing at which the Commissioners' bulletin describing standards 

 for grading was given out. This procedure was repeated at Chi- 

 cago, Centralia, Mt. Vernon and St. Louis, and served at least 

 to emphasize the fact that poor cream will not make good but- 

 ter ; also that after all, the judgment of the members present 

 did not vary greatly on the question of what constituted good 

 and poor quality. One of the most interesting of this series of 

 meetings was held a few weeks later in Chicago, where a new 

 feature was introduced by Professor McKay. This consisted 

 in a description of a cream cooling tank which could be pur- 

 chased at a minimum cost and used by the farmers for controll- 

 ing temperature, which as had been previously pointed out is 

 the most potent factor in controlling the quality of cream. It 

 was at this meeting that the Illinois boys decided to adopt the 

 slogan "Cool Your Cream." It was about this time also that it 

 was agreed by each of the clubs that its members would 1)eg"in 

 to grade cream on the basis described in the Commission bulle- 

 tin. That grading was actually instituted in many creameries 

 at that time is evidenced by experiences in grading as reported 

 by individual members at subsequent meetings. One of the 

 largest meetings ever held was in Peoria where nearly lOO cream- 

 erymen were present. Methods for perfecting the grading sys- 

 tem were fully discussed. 



I hope you will realize that at best this could be only a very 

 brief and imperfect summary of what has actually taken place, 

 but certainly the sort of work here briefly described is worthy 



