ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN S ASSOCIATION. 



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Amount consumed as above , 



Cheese 



Butter 



Condensed milk 



$ 42,887,500 00 



312,543,923 pounds @ 10 c I 31,254,392 30 



653,000,000 pounds @2oc I 130,600,000 GO 



3,600,000 gallons @ 10 c I 360,000 00 



Total amount of milk product in 1878 | ^205,101,822 30 



RECAPITULATION. 



The value of wheat, flour and bread exported $122,698,054 



Wheat consumed at home, i bushel per capita, at ^i per bushel... 47,000,000 



[69,698,054 00 



We estimate the dairy product to exceed the wheat by $ 35,403,838 30 



The dairy product of the country exceeds the entire exportation of all cereals. 



The exported cotton, manufactured and raw material, amounts to ^191,470,144 oo 



The dairy product exceeds the cotton export by $ 13,631,748 30 



In conclusion, we would most emphatically say that in 

 our judgment the world is not over-stocked with dairy 

 products, and more than that, we very much question 

 whether it is ever likely to be so. 



Look to the southern states in our own country and 

 you will see they are not likely to become either good but- 

 ter or cheese makers. The question is asked, Why not ? 

 We answer — Simply, because they do not raise the grasses 

 necessary to do so. The spears of grass in some portions 

 of those states are as scarcely seen as an honest politician 

 in the country at large. 



Think you of the many millions of mouths to be sup- 

 plied with one of the best of foods for the human system ; 

 one that is universally received in its normal state by nearly 

 or quite all of the mammals on the face of the earth. 

 Cheese contains the nitrogenous and more or less of the 

 phosphates of milk, and is better adapted to building up and 

 sustaining the system than any other known solid food of 

 similar cost. Butter is largely carbon, a substance necessa- 

 rily called for and used by animals in sustaining the fire of 

 life. You ask us how we know this to be a fact ; we answer 

 — by observation. Look with your mind's eye to the 

 Esquimau who lives in the far northern clime, where 

 the mercury congeals in the winter, and hardly thaws dur- 

 ing the summer, who takes the oil blubber (which is largely 

 carbon) and drinks it with as much gusto as our toper does 

 a glass of whisky and with much happier results. 



We believe it to be a duty that every manufacturer 

 who is engaged in the manufacture of dairy products owes 

 to himself, to make his goods of such quality as the market 

 where he expects to sell demands. We see no good reason 

 for commissioning perishable goods like butter and cheese, 



