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milk are required to wear white suits. The milk is delivered with 

 twenty push carts, each having a large can, called a milk churn, 

 swiuig between the wheels, and attached to the cart are also several pails, 

 some containing cream and others to be used in carrying milk up the 

 hills where it is too steep to push the cart. As the advantages of thor- 

 oughly cooling the milk are not appreciated, they incur the extra labor 

 and expense of having the milk delivered twice a day at the depot and 

 also to the customers. 



MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS. 



England has practically no creameries or cheese factories. Nearly 

 all of the milk not used for direct consumption is made into butter or 

 cheese on the farm, by far the greater part being converted into 

 sweet cream butter. The excellent and uniform quality of the butter 

 and cheese used on the tables at hotels and in the home of England 

 is everywhere noticeable. An 

 Englishman would not think of 

 serving butter of as poor a quality 

 as much of that found on the 

 American markets. 



As the population of England 

 is over seven times as dense as 

 that of Illinois, a large percentage 

 of the milk produced is used for 



direct consumption, and most of Lniiiy building on Lord Rothschld-s 



the butter and cheese consumed 



has to be imported from other countries. The United States is enjoy- 

 ing practically none of this trade. Denmark and Holland, by studying 

 English tastes and demands, have captured the greater part of the 

 dairy imports and are producing them on land worth from $500 to 

 $1,000 an acre. 



IRELAND. 



Although having the advantage of favorable natural conditions, 

 the Emerald Isle falls behind in agricultural progress, both as regards 

 the peasantry and the capability of the soil, and it naturally follows that 

 the dairy industry is on a i)ar with the other agricultural operations. 



Being directly influenced by the Gulf Stream, Ireland has a climate 

 which — moist in summer, moderate in winter — exposes almost 20,000,000 

 acres of land to a long growing season. The climate and soil are especially 

 adapted to the growing of pasture, hay and green crops, and the unique 

 natural advantages particularly adapt the country to dairying rather 

 than grain growing. The general size of the farms also lends itself to 

 the intensive methods, which are practiced where dairying is rightly 



