14 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
which meant skimmed; you cannot keep full cream clieese- 
it becomes stringy and sharp. We receive orders for mild 
cheeses-we ship skimmed. They till the bill and we receive 
our pay, and that is the end of it; but should we ship full 
cream cheese, the end would not be yet. The trouble is a 
large amount of cheese is made in the season when there is 
no demand for it; i. e., when fresh fruits are abundant. It 
seriously affected the consumption of cheese. If none was 
made in winter, when it was wanted, a good price could be 
obtained. Skimmed cheese, in the long run, is a damage to 
the business; if you are compelled to hold it a month or two 
it is not fit to eat. It is also difficult to have a dairy in flus 1 
milk just when you want them, but if it could be so arrange 
as to make the milk in winter it would seem best Did not 
ao-ree with Judge Wilcox that all factorymen should buy the 
milk at the beginning of the whole season for the reason 
that milk and its products were as liable to fluctuate in puce 
as any other commodity, and it would seem only fair and 
just that the dairymen should, bear a portion of the burden. 
The same practice is pursued in the N ortliwest as that m New 
York and the Eastern States. There is no guess work about 
it; each patron knows just what the dividend is. All have 
an interest, but none greater than the factoryman; his repu¬ 
tation is at stake, and often times his all in property, rhe 
commission is best, and comes the nearest to exact justice. 
The factorymen must guarantee the product; patrons must 
be made whole and pay for no blunders. The quality should 
always be good. We are now improving much faster in the 
line of butter making than cheese making, and this is the 
natural consequence; cheese must be made by outside factories 
while those with better facilities must make the butter Our 
superior advantages for butter making were fully established 
by the Centennial exhibit of dairy products, when the West 
received eleven out of the fifteen prizes awarded. 
The West was fast surpassing the East in dairying. Every 
thing seems to be in our favor. As a whole our land was 
• better and far cheaper, and the freights are in our favor, as 
