68 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



Another gentleman : "Judge Quarton is willing to concede 

 you are right if it is Holstein milk." (Laughter). 



A : The Judge is right and the figures should be four 

 quarts per family of five, or an average of four-fifths of a quart 

 per capita per day as the consumption of milk on farms. 



Take your local situation for instance, from the financial 

 point of view. You think of the milk business as of a business 

 of no considerable importance, when as a matter of fact if yon 

 will take the consumption of milk at ten cents a quart it runs 

 into nearly $300,000 a year for the milk supply of this city. 

 Now, if you would follow that back to the values of the cows 

 and land necessary to produce this milk you would find rather 

 more than one million dollars invested. It is a very creditable 

 and respectable business from a standpoint of the capital invest- 

 ed even though all you ordinarily see of the milk business is a 

 few men and wagons upon your streets. 



Unfortunately when it comes to a matter of city ordinances, 

 because of this lack of appreciation of the financial importance 

 of the business, the city authorities are prone to enact ordinances 

 controlling the minute business details of the business without 

 giving the matter more thought than they would bestow upon 

 fixing the amount of the dog tax for the coming year. 



Taking the matter of the shipping distance. To be sure, 

 your milk comes in from a short range, and up to a few years 

 ago, milk was generally so handled. It is hardly more than 

 twenty years when the milk supplied in New York was hauled 

 in wagons from the farms nearby to the great city. At the pres- 

 ent time much of the supply comes in from 500 miles each day. 

 Not only from the northern part of the Empire State, but con- 

 siderable of it is coming from across the line, from Canada, into 

 New York and down to the city, and part of that milk travels 

 regularly something like 500 miles to reach its market. Some 

 of the milk coming to Chicago comes more than 100 miles, and 

 the average haul of the milk coming into Chicago is something 

 like fifty odd miles. At the time of the recent milk difficulty in 

 New York City carlots of milk were diverted from the Chicago 

 trade to New York, so it was possible to supplement the Chicago 

 supply by New York milk and Canada milk. 



