ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. g^ 



a whirligig sort of a machine, where part of me was charxged to cream and. 

 part to skim milk; thecream beiKg the portion to be kept in the factory,, 

 was run into another room into a cream vat. Here also I detected the 

 tobacco smoke odor and other odors which I thought came from the churn, 

 and a mouMy refrigerator. At noon the buttermaker left me and did not 

 return again until the following morning, during which time I nearly 

 perished for want of air. 



Ladies and Gentlemen: This is not overdrawn. The foregoing has 

 happened and is happening in some creameries today. Is it any wonder 

 then that so much butter becomes rancid, Sampsonized, Herculean? He 

 may be a Miller, a Haugdahl, a Sondergaard, or such a buttermaker as F.- 

 A. Leighton would have us to be; he can not take such cream and make 

 extra butter; that delicate aroma that tickles the palate of the judge and. 

 strikes his olfactory nerve with a pleasant sensation is gone, and gone- 

 forever. 



He may wash it with water the purest and best 



That comes from' the spring, kind nature's behest. 



He may whirl the churn around and around 



Those germs from the stable he never can drown. 



He may use Sudy's^ color, that's known far and wide 



To the user of which no ill can betide. 



He may use just enouglhto get the rigfht shade 



But the flavor was gone 'ere the butter was made. 



He may use Worcester salt, that's sparkling and bright 



Which Bates has told us is just about right. 



It has climbed far up the ladder of fame 



But those troublesome microbes decay just the same. 



How shall this butter problem be solved? The solution lies' with the- 

 farmer who furnishes the milk; the buttermaker who received it, and the- 

 man who oversees the running of the creamery. They must work in har- 

 mony, overcome all obstacles, and good results will follow. 



One more problem, and I am done. That is, the Oleo problem. 

 Modern warfare has. advanced materially in the last ten years. The 

 death-giving agents of war have reached a high state of perfection. 

 Whether or not this is as it should be, I am unable to answer. An advanc- 

 ing army starts out to invade the enemies hold; their step to the martial 



