2i ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Not less tlian 2,225,000 gallons of milk is condensed annually at this 

 i'actory. In the process of condensing all the constituent parts of the milk, 

 fat, casine, and sugar are retained, whereas in the manufacture of butter 

 and cheese, all of the sugar, and about 25 per cent, of the casine is run off 

 into the whey, thereby entailing a heavy loss on the dairy industry. 



From official reports it appears that in 1882 there was exported $200,490 

 worth of condensed milk, and in 1883, $180,505 worth. 



It would seem that there is a larger per cent, of the condensed milk ex- 

 ported than of either of the other dairy products. This department of the 

 dairy industry is in it's infancy, and is capable of being enlarged to almost 

 any extent. 



Probably in no other product of the dairy has there been more marked 

 i uaprovement than in the quality of our butter. 



Turning to the report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for 1871, and 

 we find this statement : " That Mr. I. H. Wanzer, manager of a butter and 

 cheese factory at Elgin, Illinois, well known as a skillful dairyman, says 

 that while Western cheese has attained a respectable standing in the market, 

 ^V'estern butter has a very unenviable reputation." Strange as this may 

 seem to us t©-day it was then too true. 



In 1877, the Commissioner says, "atone time there was a prejudice in 

 Eastern markets againt Western butter and cheese. That is rapidly disap- 

 appearing and usually the creamery and factory brands of Wisconsin, 

 Michigan, Illinois and Iowa, command quick sales at remunerative prices." 



Four years later, as appears from the tabulated statement in the report 

 of the Illinois Department of Agriculture, the sales on the Elgin Board of 

 Trade, amonted to $2,219,600.04,- the sales of cheese were 11,327,525 pounds, 

 and of butter, 3,868.629 pounds. 



It hardly seems possible that in so short a time the dairy center of this 

 country should be transferred to this State. And yet it is a historic fact 

 that in all the great markets of this country the dealers in dairy products, on 

 market days, waitfoi reports of transactions on the Elgin Board of Trade 

 before making any large transactions in butter. 



DISCUSblON. 



Prof. Morrow : I will only take time to express my sincere regret that 

 a gentleman of the ability of Mr. Lord has not given us the paper that I 

 wish he would. I confess that I found myself much more interested in the 

 facts which he gave us in regard to the early status of the dairy interest in 

 this State than I did in the statistics. There are many of those important 

 for us to remember, and yet I think it only fair to say that I regret what 

 seems to be the mistaken line in which he discusses the statistics of the na- 

 tional department of agriculture. Mr. Dodge, the statistician of that depart- 

 ment, ranks perhaps as the first statistician in the United States, and it 

 seems to me that the author of that paper has fallen into an error which led 

 him further from the accurate truth than Mr. Dodge in the first place. I do 

 not believe, for instance, that you will find that his estimate of the average 

 product of the cows of Illinois, as a whole, is as nearly correct as that of Mr. 



