XVlll HISTORICAL 



Lewis, Harry Burrell and many other progressive dairy- 

 men made Herkimer County cheese famous. 



From New York, dairy farming spread rapidly west- 

 ward through Ohio to Michigan and Northern lUinois, 

 where butter making was developed around Elgin, and 

 to Wisconsin, where Governor Hoard preached the 

 gospel of progress, Babcock invented and gave to the 



J. H. Monrad, the Governor W. D. J. A. Ruddick, Dairy 

 " Pen and Ink " butter- Hoard, of Wisconsin, Commissioner of 

 maker of New York promotor of progressive Canada 

 Produce Review methods of dairying, 



world the famous test that bears his name and Russell 

 made a specialty of dairy bacteriology. 



J. H. Monrad, Assistant Dairy Commissioner of 

 Illinois, student, writer and lecturer on dairy sub- 

 jects, collected and indexed one of the most com- 

 plete and valuable libraries of dairy literature found 

 anywhere, which after his death in 1915 was taken 

 over and installed in special rooms by Chr. Han- 

 sen's Laboratorium in Copenhagen, where a librarian 

 is keeping it up to date and it is open to the public. 



In Canada, Dairy Commissioners Jas. W. Robertson 

 and J. A. Ruddick, D. M. McPherson, the ''Cheese 



