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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
actually is, but you won’t believe what I have told, but try it, prov 
it with a true pair of scales. The more particular you are in testing 
the more you will see the correctness of my statement. Another ev 
is cured by having your milk delivered twice per day—that is skin 
ming. There is more of this done than ought to be. There ar 
dairymen who skim their night’s milk regularly, and say it is the 
own. So it is until they deliver it. Then it is in law a crime as muc 
as to water milk. The sooner milk is delivered to factory, after bein 
drawn from the cow and properly cooled, the more it is worth to th 
manufacturer and producer. I know there are very few factory me 
that believe as I do on this subject, but all would if they would test 
as carefully as I have. 
The best article I have ever read was written by Miss Morle; 
of Baraboo, Wis. Subject—How to Make Sweepstake Butter. Th 
butter shown by her at the International Fair spoke volumes in favc 
of her theory. No once-per-day milk in that ; no collected cream i 
her theory, but pure dry air. The milk allowed to stand until rip 
for the skimmer, which is about thirty-six hours in cool weather, an 
twenty-four hours in warm weather. It all the milk of the state o 
Illinois was handled, as Miss Morley advises handling it, I think th 
net product would be nearly double what it now is. Verily it pa) 
to do things well. I have often said a man should never be satisfie 
to milk a cow a year unless her product brought him net $75. O. 1 
Tanner and E. H. Seward both beat $80 in 1873, an< ^ not ne: 
as high as now. Not half the cows milked—east or west—produ< 
net $35. 
Judge Wilcox said a year ago last May a test was made at tl 
Elgin Butter Company’s factory, and after a trial, those who deli’ 
ered twice per day were allowed one cent more per gallon than tho^ 
who delivered once. The test continued for ten days and was the 
given up. The difference, he thought, in favor of twice-a-day mil 
was about twenty-five per cent. 
The question was asked why the company discontinued receivir 
milk twdce a day, and George P. Lord said.it was because they cou 
not cool the milk at the factory. 
Some one stated that in Iowa the yield of butter from milk deli’ 
ered twice a day at a factory for six months was 4.20 pounds. / 
another factory for nine and a half months the yield was 4.16 pounc 
per day. 
I. Boies said the milk at his factory w r as delivered twice a da 
He bought his milk ; paid 75c. per 100 tor May ; 70c. for June, ar 
75c. for July. He sold the sour milk at four cents per can ; sold tl 
butter milk in Chicago at fifty cents per can—now worth sixty cent 
He asserted that water was the greatest enemy of milk ; in washir 
butter he always added salt enough to the water to save the butte 
He good-naturedly stirred up the people, and they fired numeroi 
questions at him, all of which he answered pleasantly. 
I. H. Wanzer said he had never received milk but once per da’ 
he could never get enough more out of twice-a-day milk to pay tl 
expense of handling. 
