ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. IB 
that make an article so good that a consumer will make a 
second purchase. 
Three-fourths of our whole country is not capable of pro¬ 
ducing their dairy products; we being more favored with 
those essentials of a dairy region, must supply them, and 
we must be careful not to let this great industry be taken from 
us by some other locality, whose people will profit by our 
mistakes. Ihe fact is we can not find in the home grocery a 
single good cheese unless it is imported. We refuse to use 
it; it is a mockery; when new, it is fair, but when cut—that 
is the last of it. ihe future of the business he considered 
flattering, as there would always be a good demand for a 
good article. 
J. R. McLean felt aroused at the broad denunciation of 
skimmed cheese by Judge Wilcox ; he said on the Elgin Board 
of Trade there certainly was a great demand for this kind 
of cheese. Reform, he said, was the watchword, and people 
had now become so reformed they really liked skimmed 
cheese, and were willing to pay for it. It was a fact that full 
cream cheese would not sell as readily as skimmed; there 
was only one cent per pound difference in price, and often not 
that in equality, ihe fact is the people have been so reformed 
they will not eat full cream cheese any longer. Dealers would 
not buy full cream cheese—could not keep and could not sell it; 
the fact is, it is hard to sell a genuine article of food. Split 
bean coffee, spurious tea and sanded sugars meet with ready 
sale; could not see how we could get along without the 
skimmed cheese. 
Dr. R. R. Stone said he thought the two gentlemen who 
had preceded him were extremists; he thought there was a 
happy medium which could be adopted and not follow either 
of these extremes. Had been twelve years in the cheese 
business. In early times he made cheese the same as he 
made hay or pork, and sold once a year; it was then old and 
tough and strong enough to do house work; but our people 
weie used to it, and so they liked it. But as fashion changes, 
so does the table. The demand was now for a mild cheese , 
