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enough and antiquated enough way to satisfy any of the believers in the 

 good old fashioned days gone by. From the crock was developed the 

 ordinary open shallow pan, and then came the deep setting system, de- 

 veloped, as we believe, first in Sweden. This was followed by the sub- 

 merged system known as the Coo ley can, which, at the time it was placed 

 on the market, was considered the greatest invention that had been made 

 in the cream raising system. From that was developed a large number 

 <of devices-, all according to the same theory, that the sooner and quicker 

 the milk was cooled the larger would be the amount of cream raised. 



In 1883 I first saw the western country; first came in contact with 

 the dairy industry of Elgin person ally and directly. ,1 had; come out to 

 place before the creamerymen and dairymen of the Elgin district the De- 

 Laval Separator. The first one was placed in operation near Hinsdale, 

 now a suburb of Chicago, some 1 2 or 14 miles south of that city on the 

 C, B. & Q. Ry. The next separator of that sort installed was at Algon- 

 «tuin in the factory of C. W. Gould, one of the leading factory men of the 

 Elgin district at that time. This was followed by one at Udina in the 

 factory owned by John Newman, now the head of the John Newman Com- 

 pany, one of the largest manufacturers and handlers of creamery butter 

 in the Elgin district. These separators were capable of handling milk at 

 the rate of from 600. to 700 pounds per hour; almost as nothing beside the 

 giants of today that handle from 4,000 to 6,000 pounds per hour. 



The Babcock test was again one of the evolutions in the dairy that has- 

 done many wonderful things. It has been the greatest educator, possi- 

 bly, that has ever appeared in the way of dairy appliances or apparatus. 

 Educating not only the creameryman, but the farmer as well, enabling 

 him to weed out, if he so desires, the non-paying boarders in his dairy, 

 and retaining those not only capable of paying their board', but a profit 

 a.s well on the labor, care, and feed expended. 



The Babcock test was not generally known at the time of the last 

 meeting of the Illinois State Dairy Association in your city. Since then 

 the invention of Dr. Babcock has become known all over the dairy world 

 and has helped very much to eliminate some of the evils that pertained 



