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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 
in the absence of any guarantee of quantity or quality of the pro¬ 
ducts, it is unreasonable to suppose that either he or his employe 
would contend seriously with any patron about the purity of the 
milk. No inspection of the premises of patrons is made nor is there 
any examination into their manner of keeping, feeding and watering 
their cows, milking their cows, straining and cooling their milk, and 
caring for their cans. 
The naked statement of the management generally of the facto¬ 
ries is of itself evidence that the quantity of butter and cheese made 
was not as large, and the quality not as good, and the price obtained 
not so high, as might be ; and hence, even at the low prices prevail¬ 
ing last summer and fall, the dairymen did not receive what they 
ought for their milk. 
Experience teaches that when the management of a business is 
confided to hired help success is seldom attained, and the business of 
manufacturing butter or cheese from milk is no exception to this 
rule. It is bad enough to intrust one’s business to his own hired 
help, but to intrust it to the hired help of another as dairymen do 
—is still more disastrous. To this management of factories generally 
there are some notable exceptions. These exceptions are generally 
where all the operations in a factory occur under the eye and helping 
hand of a skilled proprietor, who appreciates the importance of neat¬ 
ness, care and economy, and of producing excellent commodities 
and who therefore endeavors to prevent impure milk being received 
and to manufacture only first-class goods--and to have all the work 
done prudently and cleanly. 
The dividends reported furnish further evidence that dairymen 
did not receive what they ought for their milk. The following is a 
statement of the lowest and highest dividends as reported from a 
large number of factories, to-wit: 
FOR MONTH OF 
for xoo pounds. 
EQUIVALENT IN GALLONS. 
difference. 
LOWEST. 
HIGHEST. 
LOWEST. 
HIGHEST. 
IOO LBS. 
GALLON. 
May . 
June. 
July. 
August. 
September. 
October. 
43 cts. 
3 2 “ 
45 “ 
50 “ 
73 “ 
83 “ 
60 cts. 
50 “ 
52 “ 
72 “ 
92 “ 
100 “ 
3.87 cts. 
2.88 “ 
4-5 “ 
4-5 “ 
6- 57 “ 
7- 47 “ 
5.4 cts. 
4-5 “ 
4.68 “ 
6.48 “ 
8.28 “ . 
9 “ 
17 cts. 
18 “ 
7 “ 
22 “ 
1 9 “ 
17 “ 
1.53 cts. 
1.62 “ 
•63 “ 
i-95 
1.71 “ 
1.52 “ 
In this calulation I suppose a gallon of milk to weigh 9 lbs., 
which is probably about 4 oz. above the average. Assuming that a 
patron had fifty cows, yielding per cow per day one and four-fifths 
¥ 
