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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 
W. W. Bingham thought dairymen had missed it by 
trying to make money at the sacrifice of reputation. The 
factory plan leads to this. All want to make as much 
money as possible. The dividend plan is wrong. It is 
quantity they are all striving for, and not quality. The 
more the factoryman makes the more money he gets. 
Times are hard ; £ S they improve, prices will also improve. 
Wilcox: All was in a lump. Individuality was en¬ 
tirely swallowed up. No person who makes a good article 
should be ashamed to brand it. He bought his butter from 
a private dairy. Could not afford to buy creamery butter. 
S. N. Wright: Thought the whole matter rested 
with the dairymen themselves. They should demand full- 
cream cheese, and compel factorymen to make them. 
Dairymen should not take a gallon of milk to a factory where 
skimmed cheese is made. And all should be sold on the 
board of trade. 
Dr. Tefft : Said there was a demand for skim cheese 
and it would be made. 
B. Cox: Had one month’s milk made into full-cream 
cheese. Received 4 cents per gallon for his milk, while he 
was receiving 4*65 f° r shims and butter. 
Seward thought the factorymen encouraged the mak¬ 
ing of all butter and skimmed cheese, as the figures 
showed there was the most money in it for them. The 
factoryman made six cents and the dairyman lost fourteen 
cents per 100 lbs., which is all wrong. 
Collett said if the watch factory put their goods up¬ 
on the market as watches only, they would never have a 
