214 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



R. R, Murphy at Garden Plain, Bealer & Prestley at Fulton, Samly 

 Elgin at Sterling, Fee & Pratt at Tampico and one at Erie, Penrose, 

 Prophetstown, (Skim Station at Lyndon), and Rock Falls. Four silos- 

 and good care of stover is reported, but the yield was less, as very few 

 farmers provided soiling crops. None of the creameiies are making 

 cheese. 



WINNEBAGO has seventeen creameries. Argyle, Cherry Valley, 

 Elida, Harlem, Harrison, Seward and Shirland, three at Pecatonica 

 (Elgin Butter Co. , P. O. Elgin, Lysander Creamery Co. and Pecatonica 

 Creamery Company), two at Durand (Laona Creamery and Elgin 

 Creamery Co.), two at Rockford (Riverside Creamery Co. and Elgin 

 Butter Co.), two at Winnebago (Winnebago Creamery and Edwards- 

 ville Creamery), Coon Creamery Co. at Rockton and Elgin Creamery Co. 

 at Roscoe. Only about one tenth of the stover is saved and the 

 shrinkage is reported as being 25 per cent. Milk and cream is ship- 

 ped to Chicago. 



COOK county. At Arlington Heights, J. L. Ehlers, J. B. Weidner, 

 John Kehe and J. A. Sigwalt are reported as having creameries; at 

 Palatine, F. E. Hawley & Co, C. Richmond, M. Richmond, Henry 

 Bochelman and Sigwalt Bros.; at Bariington, August Boehmer, H. 

 Boehmer, F. E. Hawley & Co and Union Creamery; at Bartlett Hick- 

 ory Grove Creamery and Schultz & Son; at Desplaines J. W. Geils and 

 a creamery at Proviso, Elk Grove and Wheeling, in all nineteen 

 creameries mostly shipping cream and milk to Chicago. 



LAKE County has twenty creameries. Aptakisic, (F. R. Tripp) 

 Buffalo Grove, Diamond Lake, Deerfield, Gurney, Highland Park, 

 (Sheahan Bros.) Ivanhoe, Liberty ville. Lake Zurich, (F. E. Hawley 

 & Co.) Long Grove, Millburn, Rondout, Russell, (Oak Grove Creamery) 

 Volo, Gilmar, (F. E. Hawley & Co.) Fox Lake, Grays Lake, (Neville 

 Bros.) Wauconda. (Wauconda Creamery and Lake Corners Creamery) 

 Dighton, (Big Hollow Creamery.) Nine silos are reported and all 

 stover is harvested, the yield was less owing to the dry fall. 



OGLE has twenty-two creameries. Adeline (W. H. Jackson), 

 Brookville (John Newman Co.), Byron (Lovejoy Johnson), Davis 

 Junction two (MacDonough & Taylor and Taylor), Flagg, Forreston 

 (John Newman Co.), Haldane (Haldane), Harper (Harper), Kings^ 

 (H. H. Hopkins), Mt. Morris (R. C. McCredie), Oregon (H. H. Hop- 

 kins), Rochelle (Hopkins & Feakins), Stillman Valley two (Fielding 

 Creamery and Ridge Farm Creamery), Taylor (Bert March), Creston 

 (G. H. Gurler), Leaf River (Leaf River Creamery and Silver Creek 

 Creamery), Myrtle, Polo, and Franklin Grove. Corn stover not cared- 

 for very much and the milk yield was less. 



DU PAGE County has twenty-six creameries at Addison, Clover- 

 dale, Naperville, Warrenville, Wayne, Wheaton, Lisle, Turner, Ro- 

 selle two (Union Creamery Co. and L. Wilkening), Winfield two- 

 (Wilcox & Dooley and Winfield Co-operative Creamery), Roselle 



