ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN S ASSOCIATION. 1 3 



cheese and throw their products on the market, they are 

 not largely your competitors only so far as our own country 

 is concerned. We must look to Europe for the larger part 

 of the competition which we are likely to meet. France 

 alone exports to England more value in butter than the 

 entire United States does in both butter and cheese. Den- 

 mark is also exporting a large amount of fine butter to 

 England, and so, also, is Sweden. 



We saw Swedish butter (if our memory serves us) at 

 the New York fair, put up in something like a wash-tub and 

 covered with two thicknesses of coarse cloth, which had 

 been exhibited at a fair in Europe and then sent across the 

 Atlantic for exhibition at the fair in New York. This butter 

 smelled and tasted rather old on top, but was solid and 

 sweet further down in the package. 



This is the kind of butter that you have to compete 

 with in the European markets, butter that is so made that 

 it will cross the Atlantic ocean in a wash-tub and hold its 

 fine flavor. England imports both butter and cheese from 

 us to export to other countries. Now why should we sit 

 upon our haunches with folded arms and allow England or 

 any other country to import for the purpose of exporting 

 our goods ? Why not open our eyes to the situation and 

 export direct to those countries, and save the commission 

 through English hands ? 



The Hon. W. G. Laduc, commissioner of agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C, informs us in his report for 1878, page 

 287, that fully three-fourths of our export of butter and 

 cheese is to Great Britain. The balance is to British 

 America and the West Indies. On further examination of 

 said report, we find on page 292 a much fuller statement, 

 giving the names of countries where we have exported 

 butter and cheese, with the amount to each, country. We 

 have copied this for the purpose of correcting an error 

 which has crept into some of our conventions in this state, 

 as well as other states. We allude to dairy, as compared 

 with other statistical reports. We here give a few of the 

 exports for 1878 : 



