66 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



ADDRESS. 



Dr. H. A* Harding, University of Illinois. 



''Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: I should have 

 spoken to you this evening regarding the Milk Supply of the 

 City of Danville, had our plans worked out. The original plan 

 contemplated a survey of the milk situation similar to the one 

 which has just been described to you and the data obtained 

 from that survey should form the text for the discussion this 

 evening. That was a very admirable plan, but certain things 

 arose which made it impossible to collect the data so that the 

 text for the address is necessarily lacking. This has been sup- 

 plemented in part by some observations regarding the local sit^ 

 uation, some general facts which are available, and by the re- 

 suits of a very careful study of the situation at Urb^na and 

 Champaign just west of you, and a general knowledge regard- 

 ing the situation of other cities of the state. 



One of the most interesting things regarding the milk sup- 

 ply of this and other cities is the remarkable growth which has 

 taken place in the milk supply business during the last fifteen 

 years. — a very large part of it during the last ten years. 



Take the city of Chicago, a promising city, of course, in 

 size, it seems almost incredible that it takes the cows of over 

 twelve thousand farms to supply the city of Chicago; that it 

 takes the production of about 250,000 cows to supply that city 

 and that each day in Chicago they utilize a million and a quarter 

 quarts of milk. This is just one city of this state, and while it 

 is of course our largest city in point of population, still there 

 are in this state of ours more cities than in any other state in 

 the Union, barring the Empire vStaie. Accordingly the entire 

 city milk supply demand in this state runs into astounding fig- 

 ures. 



Take the situation with your own city of Danville, you are 

 consumiing here only about 8,000 quarts a day. 1 may say that 

 3^our supply per capita is rather low ; you do not seem to have 

 appreciated the value of milk to the extent to which it is com- 



