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part of stover is fed in the fields there is shipped a lot of milk and 

 cream to St. Louis. These seven counties are all deemed well 

 adapted for dairying". 



EDGAR County has a creamery at Grover (Irene Creamery) and 

 one at Paris, but sends no report. 



McLEAN has two at Chenoa (Chenoa Creamery and Jacob Bald- 

 bach), one at Lexing-ton and a dead one at Danvers. There are three 

 silos, stover is partly fed in the fields and the milk yield was less. 



TAZEWELL has two at Morton (V. Wick and D. Musselman) and 

 one at Tremont, and no silo. Stover is fed partly in the fields, and 

 the milk yield was less. Milk is sold to Peoria. 



PIATT has one creamery running- at Bement and dead ones at 

 Atwood, Mansfield and Monticello. There are no silos, stover is left 

 in the field and milk yield reported ten per cent. less. 



MACOUPIN is said to have had creameries at Chesterfield, Gilles- 

 pie, Mount Olive, Palmyra and Shipman, but they are reported as 

 abandoned or run as skim stations. Milk and cream goes to St. 

 Louis. There are only a few silos but the corn fodder is mostly cut. 

 The yield for 1897 was less, partly on account of drought, partly 

 because farmers thought prices too low. The last four counties are 

 considered good for dairying. 



This shows only twenty-six creameries running in these thirty- 

 four counties. 



THE NORTHERN THIRTY-FOUR COUNTIES. 



This is the real Dairy District of Illinois and only four counties 

 of the thirty-four are without any creamery. MARSHALL with one 

 silo, stover eaten in the fields, no milk shipped and a yield much less 

 than ninety-six. One dealer in Lacon bought two tons of creamery 

 butter and yet there is made more dairy butter than consumed. 

 Cream mostly raised in shallow^ pans. WOODFORD has no silos, 

 stover left in the fields, raises calves and consumes all butter made. 

 WARREN has sent no report and PUTNAM has two creameries one 

 at Hennepin, but both are said to have failed. 



STARK has one creamery at Wyoming, (Hammond & Galbraith) 

 but sends no report. HENDERSON has one at Terre Haute but no 

 silo; leaves the stover in the field and produced less milk in 1897. 

 ORUNDY has a co-operative Creamery at Morris, (Grundy County 

 Creamery Co.) with two skim stations. There is one silo and part of 

 the stover is cut but the milk yield was less. There is some milk 

 shipped to Chicago. KNOX has a creamery at Altona, (Caldwell & 

 Anderson) one at Wataga (Sparta Creamery Co.) and a cheese factory 

 at Ontario; sends no report. 



PEORIA has a creamery at Princeville, Northampton, and a 

 cheese factory at Alta, and there is said to be four more cheese fac- 



