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or dirty milk at sight; utensils should be kept clean; patrons 
should be visited often, and if all is not right at the farm, 
help to make it right, and when the milk has once passed the 
inspector, he should be held strictly responsible for the pro¬ 
duct; would be inclined to favor the cheese maker’s side, but 
could not do so; stirring with a pine stick has been known to 
spoil a whole vat of milk, at another time a filthy strainer 
would produce the same effect; could not see any other way 
than to hold the cheese maker strictly responsible for all 
poor products. 
Tiios. Bishop said Mr. Wanzer was an exception; he 
bought his milk, whereas, other factory men manufactured by 
the pound, merely acting as commission men; the more made, 
the more pay; had no interest at all in the product, only in 
quantity; would receive any and all milk, good or bad, as 
their pay was effected thereby; patrons and maker should 
have a like interest in the factory; to buy the milk was the 
only way to remedy the evil; in a new country patrons were 
stiictly honest, but they soon learned that poor milk went 
just as far pay day as good milk, and so they all made poor 
milk; no factory should be run on commission, and unless the 
milk bought bought by the maker, three-fifths of all the fac¬ 
tories in Illinois will close within three years, for they will 
not pay; more money could be made by working up the milk 
at home; consumers are too scarce, because cheese is too 
poor; could make his dairy average $100 per head by home 
manufacture, which he considered the best plan, all con¬ 
sidered. 
J. R. McLean thought much care should be taken by the 
dairymen; often some trivial thing produced sour milk; had 
known a dirty thermometer to sour a whole batch of milk. 
The committee on the Centennial matter submitted the fol¬ 
lowing report: 
The committee respectfully report that they have not deemed it advisa¬ 
ble to recommend any specific plan of exhibiting the dairy products of this 
