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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
Hon. Wm. Patten thought it the true plan to make a good 
article as cheaply as possible; it was like a railroad; it 
would create its own demand. Could not endorse the theory 
advanced by Mr. Bishop; to cheapen production is the true 
plan. _ 
H. C. Scofield said that when the first dairy club was foimed 
at El°in some dairymen refused to tell what they knew about 
dairying for fear some one would learn something. Then 
our region was not known for its dairy business; one wagon 
load would flood the market; now we ship by the ton and by 
the car load, all over the world, at prices which the early 
dairymen never dreamed of 
Israel Boies thought winter dairies did not feel the summer 
drought as much as summer dairies, fed on grass; give the 
cows^all the good feed you can. 
No. 14. “Can summer butter be so handled and packed 
that it will retain its freshness and sweetness for winter use V 9 
C. C. Buell read the following paper upon this question, 
and also gave his experience as to using brine in packing 
butter in summer. 
C. C. BUELL’S PAPER. 
Can summer butter be so handled and packed that it will retain its 
freshness and sweetness for winter use i , 
If an affirmative answer to this question means that butter can be kep 
through summer and autumn retaining its sweetness and freshness so as 
not readily to be distinguished from fresh, sweet butter, we can not atte^ p 
to maintain it We have never seen any such and should lack the first and 
and most essential argument in the case. Moreover, if we understand the 
accented theories as to what gives the butter the peculiar aroma and deli¬ 
ciousness of the best made fresh butter, we should not expect on genera 
manciples they could be retained—at least only in a very slight degree. We 
shall have to Lave to our associates, therefore, the task of maintaining the 
affirmative in this sense if they desire so to do. 
Whether butter can be thus preserved so as to be good, 
without rancidity or bad flavor, is another question which we believe 
be answered in the affirmative, and we propose to discuss it under three 
heads, viz.as to the place of storage, the package, and the content . 
1. As to the place of storage : ,, 
The first requirement is that it must be a cool place. A cellar or other 
