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Creamery.) There are twelve silos in the county and nearly all the corn 

 fodder is harvested, the yield was considerable less owing- to the dry 

 fall, and a good deal of milk and cream is shipped to Chicago. 



McHENRY, the Banner County boasts of fifty nine creameries 

 and one skim station. F. W. Patrick of Marengo runs five creameries 

 there, two at Woodstock, and one at Union. R. M. Patrick runs two 

 at Marengo. W. A, Boies runs three at Marengo, one at Woodstock, 

 at Harmony and at Union. Oatman Bros. (P. O. Dundee) runs one at 

 Ringwood, two at Big Foot Prairie, one at Hebron, at M3Henry and 

 at Richmond. Elgin Butter Company one at Johnsburg, Cornell 

 Bros, two at Huntley and one at Coral. Munger Dairy Company 

 three at Harvard, one at Lawrence, one at Chemung and one at Hart- 

 land, two at Greenwood (Greenwood Creamery Co. and Douglas.) 

 Creameries are also at the following place-^: Alden, Barreville, 

 Nunda, Coral (Coral Creamery), Crystal Lake (Elkhorn Dairy Co.), 

 Harmony (Cornell Bros.), Huntley (C. D. Chase), Marengo (James 

 Hutchinson), Solon Mills (Farmers Co-operative Creamery, Wood- 

 stock (M. Miner, two), Cary Station (Henry Garben & Co.), 

 Harvard, two, (J. E. Conklin) and Oak Grove Creamery Company. 

 Hebron four (Hebron Creamery Co., Grove Creamery Co., Green Val- 

 ley Creamery Co. and Spring Creek Creamery Co.); Richmond five 

 (Hawthorne Bros., Stone Corners Creamery, J. Vosburg and Keystene 

 Creamery); Ridgefield (Crystal Springs Creamery); Spring Grove 

 (Farmer's Co-operative Creamery). There are about seventy-five 

 silos and all corn fodder is taken good care of. The milk yield 

 was rather less than in '96. Milk and cream is shipped to 

 Chicago and some twenty creameries make cheese also. 



