g2 ILLINOIS STATE DALEYMEN^S ASSOCIATION. 
How often do I hear the complaint conveyed in these words: I like your 
creamery butter, but before I get a package used up it gets frowy. And then 
they say there is a lack of consistency in your creamery butter; it is too 
oily These are the two most frequent complaints that I hear. The cause, 
I think, of the first complaint, is, as I have said before, in the bringing of 
o„r milk and cream into close contact with manufacturing and press rooms. 
The cause of the other complaint is, that where we only get the first part o 
the cream-the largest and richest globules-the butter made therefrom is 
more oily, and lacks that waxy consistency that characterizes butter made 
from all the cream, as any one can demonstrate, as I have done. a 'em 
cream that rises the first twelve hours, and manufacture into butter. 
the cream that will rise the next twelve hours and make it into buttei. 
How take two lumps of butter, of the same size, one from each and place 
them in a warm room. The buttei- made from the first cream will be melted 
to oil while the other will retain its form, proving to me that the whole 
cream is needed to make a perfect butter. And this cream and milk must 
be handled in a pure atmosphere to bring about the last result. 
Although the word has gone out at the East that we handle milk with an 
enemy in it, and although it has been proclaimed broadcast m our land that 
perfect butter and cheese can not be made m the \\ est on account of sta 0 
I,ant pools, eddies and sluggish streams, yet the facts in the case have gon 
far to prove to the contrary; and if we will stop this skimming now we hon¬ 
estly believe that we will carry the palm from all the world beside. V, e have 
got the country bountifully supplied with every requisite to successful 
dairying, and we also think that a speedy departure from our mixed system 
of making butter and cheese will redound to the interest ot bettei cheese 
and butter. 
The Committee on Revision of tlie Constitution made the 
following report: 
“ That Sec. 2 be so amended as to read: The officers of this association 
shall consist of a President and three Vice Presidents, a Secretary and 
Treasurer. There shall also be elected, or appointed, three Trustees m each 
county of this state represented, or that may hereafter be represented in the 
convention, who shall be charged with the interests of the Association n 
their respective counties, and whose further duty it shall be to report to the 
officers of the Association annually, or oftener, if required, the statistics ot 
the dairy interests in their respective counties. 
u Se c. 3 . The officers of this Association shall be elected by ballot, no 
member being entitled to a vote who has not paid his initiation fee for the 
J Article 9. The Association shall have full power to make such Rules 
and By-Laws as shall be deemed advisable. 
r^crnPfll “Joseph Tefft, ) 
^signed] n Thompson, > Committee. 
“R. T. McGlincy, ) 
On motion, the report was accepted, and by the provision 
