1 6 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
If not saleable when ready for market at some reasonable 
price, it is far better to hold them in the factory, where they 
can be looked after and cared for, than to send them for¬ 
ward to commission men to be placed in store-houses or 
piled upon the wharfs of any city on the face of this broad 
earth. After once ready for sale they are never out of the 
way until in the hands of the consumer or actually con¬ 
sumed. 
The exportation of butter, from January I, 1879, to 
Nov. 27, has reached 34,705,284 pounds; the excess over 
last year for same time, 13,518,230 pounds. The exporta¬ 
tion of cheese for same time is 120,366,857, a falling off of 
8,638,316 pounds, as compared with last year, as per New 
York price-current report of Nov. 27, 1879. 
On motion it was then decided to take up the topics 
in their order according to the programme, and 
Topic No. 4—“ Has the manufacture of skimmed 
cheese had any thing to do with the depression in the price 
of dairy products?’’—was taken up. Charles Baltz, of 
Chicago, was called upon, and talked a short time upon the 
subject. 
Charles Baltz : He was entirely unprepared, he 
said, to talk on the topic before the convention, though he 
had often been called upon to do so. Being a cheese deal¬ 
er, however, he was willing to do or say any thing that 
would make an improvement in the manufacture of skim 
cheese. In regard to it having any effect on the market, 
he thought that the market was governed, mainly, by the 
laws of supply and demand. He would not take either 
side of the question, but would strike a mean between the 
two extremes. Possibly skim cheese, when made in the 
summer, may hurt the price ; but if it is made properly it 
will always find a good market. Let it be made as it will, 
it will find a market. The dealer buys it because it is cheap, 
and the consumers buy it from the dealer because it is 
