46 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
L. C. Ward, St. Charles, said he was not a speaker. 
As to making butter alone, he had no experience, as 
making both, he had. To run a factory on three thousand 
Donnds per day, would ruin anyone; twenty thousand 
pounds would do, at three and one-half and four cents for 
butter. He knew that some factories in the East worked 
up milk into cheese for one and one-half cents per pounc, 
while two and one-half was charged. He had been to some 
trouble to get reports from some of those Eastern lactones. 
In Chataqua County, N. Y., while they were paying a 
idend of ninety cents per one hundred pounds of mitt, h 
was paying, the same time, one hundred and five cents p 
one hundred pounds of milk, he charging two an d one-ha f 
cents for manufacturing, which was the cheapest for th 
dairyman; it was an easy problem to figure, e pai _ 
cents per one hundred pounds more than they did, they 
could afford to manufacture cheaper than he coulc, iey 
often used old sheds (or something no better,)for factories; 
no capital invested, while he had fifteen thousand dollars 
invested in his factory which was perishable prope y. 
Products would sell better out of a nice, clean, well-regulated 
factory than an old rickety shed. In the Bart, factory^ 
employed women at one dollar per day; he hired good, 
experienced help; had to pay over three dollars per day , 
this must be done where a factoryman warrants h s 
products; no cheap help will do where a goo a article 
desired; you must hire a good man with a good head on 
him Could work up fifty thousand pounds as well as five 
thousand pound, p.r day. It was worth. great tot to 
patron, to havo their product sold,and always at t i« utn " 
price; sold all to one man. It was not a fapt that t 
majority of patrons to cheese factories were dissatisfied 
could always hold his patrons; they were constantly on the 
increase. The fact is, the western farmers charge a little 
more than in the East, but pay their patrons a great deal 
more. Small factories should be consolidated, so as 
cheapen manufacture. Must have good factory buildings, 
