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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
pounds of milk. Milk dividend for September, $1.25 per 100 pounds, from which v 
will deduct 25 cents before making comparison, would leave $1 to compare with 6 
cen t, s _a difference of 38i cents or 62 per cent, in favor of whole milk. 
From an average of ten patrons in October I got 6 and 21-100 inches of cream, ; 
12 cents per inch, would make 74£ cents worth of cream from 100 pounds of mil 
Our October dividend is not made, but will call it $1.40; think it will not be less ths 
that; deducting 25 cents leaves $1.15 to compare with 74£ cents, a difference of 4< 
cents in favor of whole milk, the whole milk dividend being 54 per cent, the most. 
In November I find the average of cream per 100 pounds of milk to be 6 and 24-l< 
inches, for which we paid 14 cents per inch, or 87 cents for cream from 100 pounds < 
milk. Our November dividend is not made, but we have settled with some of o 
patrons at $1.50 per 100 pounds; at that price the difference is 37 cents per 100 poun* 
in favor of whole milk, 25 cents having been deducted from the milk dividend for d 
livering milk to factory and for loss of skim milk. 
I believe the cream-gathering business has come to stay. It is yet new, and tl 
present methods will be improved. It can be made to pay where there are not co\ 
enough to sustain a whole milk factory. I have not the least doubt about the bus 
ness being made successful in many localities where the whole milk business wou 
prove a failure. 
Question—Why did you quit ? 
Answer—One section is largely engaged in summer dairying, and we found th 
it would not pay to run over the country after the cream. 
Question—What is the value of skim milk ? 
Answer—When pork is worth 4 cents, skim milk is worth 25 cents per 100. 
Question—Which is the more profitable, to take milk to the factory, or sell crear 
Answer—I have grade Jerseys and get a large yield of butter, and do not like 
put such milk in the factory against other which is much poorer. 
At this juncture Gov. Cullom appeared in the hall and was received with applaus 
He was escorted to the platform by the reception committee, and on being introduc* 
to the audience, made a brief speech, which was well received. 
The programme was then resumed, the secretary reading Mr. King’s paper. [M 
K. entered the hall while the paper was being read, and answered the many questio 
which were fired at him.— Secretary.] 
IS THE CREAM-GATHERING SYSTEM A SUCCESS ? 
ADDRESS OF T. R. KING, OF MORRISON, ILL. 
Mr. Chairman , Ladies and Gentlemen :—You can scarcely imagine my feelings 
I attempt to make an intelligent representation of this new and peculiar subject a. 
at the same time do justice to all parties. It is very likely that any man who has h 
the misfortune of being a pioneer in this great undertaking would give a more prej 
diced view than he who could come in profiting by the experience of those who h 
gone before ; for it is hard to close the eyes upon 'the thousands of dollars worth 
patent milk pans and other appurtenances of defunct theories that are stacked up 
remote corners, not worth one cent. It is hard to forget that all this might be a ba 
account instead of an incubus. I will endeavor to forget this for the moment, a 
discuss the matter purely upon its merits. I do not intend to spend all my time 
eulogizing this great scheme, for my experience from year to year is not such as 
warrant it. However, it would not be just to discuss the disagreeable features fir 
as too much good has come out of its progress. When I reflect upon the wonder! 
growth of the dairy interests throughout the West, and the enormous financial bead 
accruing to the producer, I think let it come, even if it does bring with it a train t 
evils, to overcome which we must depend upon the intelligence and integrity of it 
only the manufacturers but the well disposed producer. 
But four years have elapsed since the creamery interests of Whiteside county hf| 
sprung into active existence, and to-day it is the predominating system of handli! 
the dairy product of the county, as well as of the entire state. " And we do not p- 
tend here that Illinois, or Whiteside county even, is the leader in this great crusac! 
but all will admit that we are not far behind. Perhaps nothing can give us a bet! 
idea of the wonderful results of the changes that have taken place, than a review 1 
the dairy business for the last ten or twelve years. We might go back much furtU 
than this, but it would present no new featuie. I therefore confine my remarks to ij 
own range of experience, and, Mr. Chairman, if a worse condition of things exist: 
previous to this time, I would desire to have it veiled and hidden It seems bu 
thing of yesterday when I bought everything in the shape of butter that was ofi'eii 
