130 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



1885..... 8,358,804 4,675,273 2,283,062.05 



1884 9,230,025 11,856,151 3,364,353.91 



1883 7,274,071 13,174,092 3,282,527.19 



1882 5,650,915 10,960,207 2,752,331.56 



1881 3,868,629 11,327,525 2,219,600.04 



1880 2,670,877 9,226,474 1,801,303.09 



1879 977,879 3,648,879 539,143.67 



1878 1,113,955 4,897,345 755,597.15 



1877 1,564.930 5,012,553 1.059,085.08 



1876 1,216,725 4,551,229 767,640.68 



1875 896,527 4,256,340 496,220.04 



1874 698,522 3,349,274 378,525.58 



1873 236,877 2,076.500 219,177.53 



1872 30,734 993,560 81,000.00 



Totals 367,853,203 163,597,129 $98,000,563.10 



Average Prices. 



For 1896. For 1897. For 26 Years. 



Butter 17j%c. 18|c. 27|c. 



Cheese 6e. 6^0. 7ic. 



Number of Factories represented on Board 424 



Number of members 293 



The total of nearly $100,000,000 business done since the 

 Elgin board was organized, is something of which the members 

 and the district feel proud. 



The Elgin District as represented on the board comprises 

 Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin, yet its influence is 

 felt wherever fine butter is sold; in all parts of the world. I 

 could go into more of the history, but I think that part is covered 

 sufficiently to show its part in "The reason for Elgin's 

 Supremacy in the butter market." Its creamery being the first, 

 in the West at least, to be able to sell a lot of fine butter, every 

 tub of which was just alike both in color, salt, package and 

 quality. It was a revelation to butterbuyers, and the name of 

 Elgin soon became noised abroad as the home of the manufacture 

 of the finest butter in the land. It being the finest, it was not 

 long before the unscrupulous were trying to palm off poorer and 

 cheaper goods as Elgin; hence, it became necessary to adopt 



