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then A. Nolting built one near Elgin, and John Newman the Spring- 

 brook Creamery, west of Elgin, and others following in rapid 

 succession until now the Fox River Valley is dotted with them, 

 and the Elgin district has so expanded that we have crowded 

 over the state lines in every direction, and the name of Elgin 

 is referred to in every State of the Union where extra fine 

 creamery butter is used, and the term *' Extra Elgin" has come 

 to mean a grade of butter and calls for the very finest. 



'Tis true that other states than Illinois are making fine butter 

 and we welcome them as comrades. We need their assistance 

 for we must stand ''shoulder to shoulder," to beat down the op- 

 position of the Butterine men who evade the law and palm off 

 their stuff, colored and made to imitate the finest creamery, and 

 thus cheat and deceive the consumers. Also the "Process" 

 Butter manufacturers, who make over old butter and grease by 

 a so-called "Secret Chemical Process," so that it looks like 

 pretty good butter. There are now Processs Butter factories, 

 or "Butter Hospitals" (which you please) in several states, but 

 the enemy seeing Chicago has made such a pleasant and prolific 

 home for "Oleo" seems to have made that city its headquarters. 

 One firm of butter dealers being interested in the manufacture 

 of this process stuff, right at Elgin, has built a large factory 

 there the past season, I suppose to steal into the trade with 

 their goods put up in attractive shape and sold as fresh churned 

 full grass flavor butter from "our" factory at Elgin. 



The Illinois Creamery Co., of Chicago, are doing their best 

 to ruin the fine butter trade of Illinois, and at the same time, those 

 interested (but under another name) are advertising in flattering 

 words to creamerymen to ship them their creamery butter on com- 

 mission — "Consistency, thou art a jewel." With these Process 

 Factories going, and, as I understand, shipping from each one 

 about a carload a day, and butterine sold as much as ever, is it 

 a wonder that the New York market declines 4c per pound at 

 a season when we naturally look for a stiffening of prices.^ With 

 this traffic increasing, it behooves the farmers of the western 

 states to think seriously before changing from their steers and 

 stock raising into. dairying, but with such bold frauds to face and 



