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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 
The secretary read the following report as the doings 
of his office for the past year: 
teECRETARY’S REPORT. 
Cash on hand at last report.... 
Cash received for membership 
Cash received for reports sold 
4.00 
•75 
32.00 
79.00 
2.75 
3-°4 
By cash paid for postage, stationery, etc. 
To cash on hand to balance. 
Which report was accepted and placed on file. 
Wm. Burton said—in reference to skimming it was a 
bad practice. If you take a little for coffee, and then a 
little for strawberries, and then a little for butter, you 
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would soon take it all. The dividends are small as it is; if 
this practice is pursued they will be still smaller. The man¬ 
ufacturers test the milk, and should receive none but good. 
The dairymen themselves were to blame. We could really 
tell but little about the dividends we see published; they 
are often paid larger than they really are, so as to draw 
patrons from other factories which pay less. A good deal 
of jockeying is done. 
Wilcox: Was glad to hear Mr. Burton s remarks, 
but was sorry to know such facts existed ; it was impossi- 
ble to get good dividends where such practices were indulged 
in ; he was astonished to know the practice existed to such 
anextent. The making of butter and cheese from the same 
milk was a new thing. It took time to perfect the business 
so as to make it profitable. 
G. P. Lord said if permission to skim was given, he 
could get rich out of water. 
