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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Creamery Management 



L. E. CAMP, ELMOVILLE. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: Creamery management from 

 the buttermaker's standpoint usually begins with managing the patrons, 

 and ends with managing creameries, v/here I have spent most of my time. 

 The buttermaker has a good deal to contend with, and his success de- 

 Iiends on good management. 



it doesn't make any difference how good a buttermaker he is, if he 

 >cannot get along with the people he comes in contact with, he is not 

 apt to make a success of his business. He must manage to have har- 

 mony everywhere. He should have the confidence and good will of the 

 patrons and his employers. He must manage to have the patrons bring 

 the very best of milk to the creamery. This is not hard to do with the 

 progressive daiiTnian. He keeps posted and if his milk should come to 

 the creamery tainted he knows there is such a thing as tainted milk, and 

 will, with the buttermaker's help, soon remedy the evil. 



Not so with the patron who reads nothing but stock journals and 

 raises steers, and milk a little as a side line. This man thinks as long 

 :as the milk is not thick it is as good as any. He milks in a wooden pail, 

 which he rinses with cold water, if he cleans it at all, and then hangs it 

 over the most cojivenient fence-post till next milking time. Then he 

 aises it again. He will pour the morning's railk into the same can with 

 the last night's milk, put the cover on tight, and thinks no more of it 

 until it reaches the creamery; for he thinks he has done all that is re- 

 •quired of him. But when the buttermaker opens his can of milk and 

 finds it to be tainted, or we might say, rotten, and tells him of it, he will 

 put up a big howl, say it is as good as anybody's milk, and that the but- 

 termaker is getting altogether too particular — usually putting it in 

 stronger terms than I have. If tJiat buttermaker can tell that patron 

 that it takes good sweet milk to make good butter^ and tell him of his 



