16 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Mt. Carroll 188T 



Changing- from December to January, no meeting .1888 



Springfield 1889 



Belvidere - 1890 



Ashley ando Dixon 1891 



Kewaunee 1892 



Sycamore 1893 



Dixon 1894 



Eochelle 1895 



Princeton 1896 



DeKalb 1897 



I shall turn over to my successor at least three copies of 

 1895, 1896 and 1897, etc., reports, a thing which ought to have 

 been done all along, as we have no reliable records at all. 



I would suggest that the Association attempt to buy up a 

 copy of each year's reports before 1895, to be handed over from 

 secretary to secretary, and hope all old members will search 

 their memory and help me. 



I have tried to locate the creameries in the various counties 

 and am not through verifying them. It may be of interest to 

 know that if we divide the state in three parts, 34 counties in 

 each, then we find about 106, and two skim stations, in the 

 southern, 26 in the central, and 426 creameries, 6 skim stations 

 and 5 cheese factories in the northern 34 counties. Among the 

 southern counties 14 have no creameries, the central 18 and the 

 northern 4, making in all 36 counties without any creameries 

 running. The 1 3 most northern counties average 24 creameries 

 to each, McHenry leading with 61, DeKalb 34, Stephenson 28, 

 DuPage 26, Kane 26, Ogle 22. 



In the southern Randolph leads with 18, St. Clair 13, Mad- 

 ison 12, Clinton 10. 



These figures are not quite correct, but they convince me of 

 one thing and that is, that there is plenty of room for more 

 creameries. Not that I desire to see every farmer make dairy- 

 ing a specialty, but because I am convinced that better work can 

 be done through this system of dairying. There are several 

 counties where there are many farmers milking from 10 to 50 

 cows, laying most stress on raising calves. In these the farm 



