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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
Resolved, That, in the judgment of this convention, those who 
receive and manufacture milk, the proceeds of which are to be dis¬ 
tributed pro rata among their patrons, have accepted a sacred trust- 
a trust requiring great vigilance and care-and that they are morally 
as responsible for the quality of milk they receive, as they are for the 
products of their factories, and that it is as unjust for them to receive 
adulterated milk, knowing it to be adulterated, as it is for dairymen 
to furnish such milk, for they cannot but know that the adultera e 
milk reduces the value of all pure milk they receive, and therefore 
works to the injury of their best patrons. 
Resolved , That as it is absolutely necessary that the quality of 
our dairy products be so improved that they will command a price m 
the market that will remunerate the producer for his milk, and as 
such improvement in the quality can be obtained only by the use o 
pure and unadulterated milk, this convention advise all engaged m 
the business of manufacturing milk, to adopt at once a thorough d ai y 
inspection of all milk received by them. Such inspection should show 
the temperature of the milk when received at the factory, the quality 
of the milk as indicated by the lactometer and the quality of cream 
in every hundred pounds of milk, and should be recorded m a book 
in such form and manner as would enable all their patrons to know 
the daily average quality of all milk they receive, and they should 
positively refuse to take milk from any and all persons who SKim or 
abstract any portion of cream from their milk. 
Mr. Lord spoke to these resolutions, strongly depre¬ 
cating the practice of skimming. A farmer might just as 
well take one can of water and one can of milk to the 
factory, and ask pay for two cans of milk. The practice 
was wrong, and should be stopped. How is it with the 
individual who accepts the trust to receive this milk ? Does 
he know of this skimming? or does he consent to it? If 
20 men take to a factory, and five take poor milk, the other 
15 would have reason to complain and just cause to protest 
and demand that all bring good milk. When cows are 
coming in at all times of the year the milk should average 
about the same ; of course where grain is fed in abundance 
the milk is of a better quality. There is not a set of dairy- 
