34   WISCONSIN CHEESE MAKERS' ASSOCIATION


to Northern Wisconsin, join us in our neck of the woods at our
Twelfth Annual Convention-help us sing Liza Jane-we know our
friend Mr. Fitch will be with us again, and I know he will not want
to return to Wisconsin Rapids without leading his favorite song, Liza
Jane. We want you to come and enjoy an excellent program and a
real spirit of good-fellowship-sing, eat, dance, learn, laugh. Our
army of cheese and butter makers and the city of Merrill, I believe,
are much alive and will assure you a good time.
THE FOND DU LAC COUNTY DAIRY ASSOCIATION
By E. C. DAMROW, Secj., Fond du Lac
We are here again following the cow path, or rather-"we are
trying to make a better path for the cow to travel so she will give
more milk, and we make a better finished product."
Our Fond du Lac County Dairy Association has taken up many
of our difficulties that come up in the different factories and a lot
of good helpful information was obtained by the various discussions.
A few of these I am going to take up here today which in reality
are not points of good cheese making, but making the industry
better. One is the protection of the factory and the other is a
proper and fair statement. When I say factories I include the
creameries and other dairy products manufacturers. By proper
statement, I mean a statement that gives all details and figures so
that a statement can actually be compared with other factories.
There are some factories, privately owned and co-operatives, that
make a practice of issuing statements that are purposely mislead-
ing or deceiving and are issued solely for the purpose to show up
big and attractive to the patrons from the neighboring factories.
Some of these statements cannot be figured-there is nothing
to figure. I have found some get as much as 3 lbs. of cheese to a
pound of butter fat. Some factories can make cheese for 2 cents a
lb. furnishing all supplies, labor and everything and have money
left; some can weigh in milk and in every 100 lbs. that is recorded
on the scale they get 110 lbs.; some have such fine eye sight that
they don't even need the Babcock tester to test the milk for butterfat.
This is all corrupt practice and we have a law against such practice,
but it is hard to get the actual proof against them.
One thing I feel sure will help a good deal is, if we have a law
making it compulsory to use a uniform statement-something as
was laid out a few years ago by Mr. Wilson of the Markets Divi-
sion. If this does not give the proper details, let us work one out
that is 0. K.
Such statement must be used by all cheese factories, creameries,
milk plants or others who are working or paying on a pound basis
or such other basis whereby the producer of the milk is paid for
his milk whatever it will bring after the finished product is sold,
deducting first the cost of handling the milk or making it into
cheese, butter or other dairy products.