<22 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN^ ASSOCIATION* 
from 800 cows upon the old plan, and I induce them to concentrate then 
milk at a single point where it can be manufactured upon the creamery 
system. The butter before has brought them upon an average 20 cents per 
pound: now it brings them 40 cents per pound. Before this the butter 
brought $24,000 per year; now it brings them $48,000. Thus in this small 
community of about five miles square, I distribute, not only this year, but 
for time to come, $24,000 more per year than before. Now if these farmers 
could just live before they can now pay their debts, improve their farms and 
increase the comforts of home. 
Be it said to the credit of the west we are looking about us, and tor the 
last few years have been making the discovery that good butter and cheese 
can be made in the west, and the west has been doing this while the east 
has been lying back upon its laurels, satisfied that it was beating the vvoild, 
and if we are not mistaken in the meantime the west has beaten the east. 
We judge this from the fact that our creamery butter of the west obtains a 
better price in the eastern markets than the best eastern make. Besides 
the enhanced value of the butter made in our factories, there are other im¬ 
portant considerations, among which is the relief that it brings to the 
household, especially to the wives and mothers of our western country. 
The additional care of the dairy to the labors of the housekeeper often 
proves the straw that breaks the earners back. In those countries where 
the mothers are worn down with care and exhaustive manual labor, we find 
their people of weak intellect, and those nations steeped in ignorance. If 
we would have our children cared for physically and mentally, let us give 
the mother time for self-improvement, that she in turn, may benefit the 
rising generation. # . 
Another great benefit we see arising from the associated system ot dairy¬ 
ing is that it brings our dairymen in close contact with each other. In 
delivering their milk to the factory they meet, and as they meet they talk 
over their different methods of caring for and the management of the dairy. 
Where one finds an advantage in pursuing a given course, the others are 
quick to follow. In short, we find a sociability among dairymen that we 
find in other classes of agriculturalists. From this contact with one 
another, many obstacles peculiar to the west have been overcome and 
removed. Consequently the dairymen who start to-day in the business find 
it comparatively easy. .... 
The same may be said of the factories. By concert of action on the pait 
of manufacturers a process for manufacturing our milk has been brought 
about adapted to our climate and markets, and we see nothing but encour¬ 
agement in the future for the associated plan of dairying in the west.. 
But few of us know of the difficulties which lay in the way of the pioneer 
factorymen of the west. The losses they sustained in overcoming the 
differences growing out of soil, climate and water, as comparing the vest 
to the east, are only known to themselves. Among the men who overcame 
the difficulties I might mention T. K. Wait, R. R. Stone, Robert A\. and 
