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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMENS ASSOCIATION. 



comes from Cook, DuPage, Kane and McHenry counties, the famous Fox 

 River valley furnishing three-fourths. Throughout these counties are 

 hundreds of splendid farms entirely devoted to dairying, and the milk is 

 either shipped to Chicago per rail or sold to the numerous factories where 

 it is manufactured into butter and cheese. 



The milk is brought to Chicago in cans holding an average of eight 

 gallons each, strongly made, the can and contents weighing about eighty 

 pounds. 



The milk being thoroughly cooled before it it is placed in the cans, but 

 little of it is injured in transit. 



Below is presented the figures of shipments from various towns to 

 Chicago upon three of our railroad lines. 



The Chicago & Northwestern railroad is the largest shipper, as its lines 

 run through the heart of the milk district. Mr. Schenck, the freight 

 auditor, kindly furnished the shipments from each station upon his line for 

 the past five years, and the aggregate presented is enormous, showing each 

 year a constant and regular increase. 



WISCONSIN DIVISION. 



Gallons, Total in 



Towns. 1877. five years. 



Arlington Heights 280,740 1,380,518 



Barrington 373,040 1,895,596 



Canfield 23,680 135,624 



Cary 74,640 407,088 



Crystal Lake 47,280 229,120 



County Line 9,228 52,712 



Desplaines 233,400 1,631,040 



Park Ridge 232 



Palatine 88,988 520,684 



Plank Road 8,000 26,196 



Ridgefield 150,496 643,640 



Woodstock 65,512 354,120 



GALENA DIVISION. 



Gallons, Totalpn 

 Towns. 1877. five years- 

 Algonquin 444,000 2,301,920 



Blackberry 86,000 294,240 



Clintonville 21,960 182,833 



Creston 408 



Dundee 989,760 4,983,376 



Elgin 21,056 206,536 



Elmhurst 52,400 380,000 



©eneva 7,848 



Gilberts 486,640 2,543,332 



Huntley 150,800 586,656 



Junction 26,616 



Kishwaukee 12,080 17,520 



LaPox 74,560 211,568 



Lodi 1,920 



Lombard 70,688 401,104 



Maywood c... 28,400 93,352 



Wbeaton 10,800 40,728 



Winfield 19,576 109,528 



Wayne 98,800 760.100 



Total 3,987,824 20,698,094 



