LLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



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We are very glad to have with us the State Dairymen's 

 Association. I was reading the other night in the National Re- 

 port of Agriculture that the dairy business in the United States 

 was over a century old, but that the improvements had all been 

 made in the last half a century. I want to say to those who are 

 visiting here that that record is nothing in comparison with the 

 record of our own county here. 



We commenced the dairy business in earnest about three 

 years ago. Before that there was delivered at this depot and 

 shipped to the city from this depot, some milk, but when the 

 Helvetia Condensed Milk Company commenced, we commenced 

 the dairy business in earnest, and in three years I think our people 

 here have made more rapid progress in dairying than any section 

 of the United States or any other country. I am satisfied by 

 June this 3^ear there will be delivered to our two condensers 

 150,000 pounds of milk every morning. 



Last year when they commenced to look around to see what 

 capacity they should make in the condenser, we suggested they 

 make it 70,000 pounds daily, and some thought that was more 

 than we could possibly do ; but they would take all the milk up to 

 70,000, and we lacked 30 pounds one day during that time of 

 reaching the limit. They will increase that plant 10,000 to 

 25,000 and we propose to give them all they can use. I want to 

 say to the President that that is the effort we expect to make. 

 That is not such a great increase as far as that is concerned. 



We have in this vicinity 600 producers of milk and if they 

 will add three cows to every herd it will make the amount of 

 milk necessary to produce 10,000 pounds. 



I am a little surprised at the remarks of some of the gentle- 

 men, as to the price of milk which they figure their cows at in the 

 Experiment Station tests that they are making over the state. We 

 must be very very fortunate in this section of the country if that 

 price is the price they received. We will get this year for our 

 milk from the condenser $1.26^c per 100 the year around. That 

 ought to be encouragement to us who are producing milk, when 



