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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
In answer to a question: He made one pound of 
butter from twenty-five and a quarter pounds of milk. He 
had heard of more being made, but he would like to see it. 
He had been told by a dairyman in Chicago that he was 
making four pounds of butter from one hundred pounds of 
milk. He fed corn and oats, and thought it was bettci to 
grind all together. He set his milk in pools in deep setters 
for forty hours ; in warm weather, twenty-four hours. Let 
it get a little sour before skimming, but usually skimmed 
just as the milk was changing. When he started it took 
twenty-seven pounds of milk to make one pound of butter. 
He had found it took just one and three-quarters pounds 
more of milk in June than in October to make a pound of 
butter. 
Bartlett: Found a little over one pound difference 
between summer and October milk. He had always found 
a good deal of difference in these two seasons, but it was 
probably in the feed. He let his milk stand thirty-eight 01 
forty hours ; about the same at all times of the year. Was 
getting at this time of the year about four and one-half 
pounds of butter to one hundred of milk. He had gotten 
from fifteen to thirty-three cents for his butter. Weighed 
it as soon as it came out of the churn. He shipped to 
Chicago. 
J. II. Foote was then called upon : He set his 
milk in warm weather by putting in pans. He had made 
in October a little less than four pounds of butter to one 
hundred pounds of milk. In November he made one 
pound of butter from twenty-one of milk. He had fed 
bran, corn-meal and corn in the shock. 
O. S. McAllister: Thought the dairy business 
needed experience and close attention. He thought if a 
