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Dodge, whom he criticises ; and I speak of that because I find here the pos- 

 sible source of this confusion. In the census reports we find that the sta- 

 tistics of the farm products— butter, cheese and milk— are respectively 

 entirely separate from those of the production as manufactured in the fac- 

 tories, whether butter or cheese, or combined ; and in many cases criticisms 

 have been placed upon the census statistics when they were expressly those 

 of the farm products and did not include those of the manufactory. A gen- 

 tleman of our own State falls into this error, in some calculations he made 

 giving the farm product in our line without any reference whatever to the 

 very large manufactories. I therefore regret that Mr. Lord, with his abund- 

 ant opportunities and knowledge on the subject, did not give us more of the 

 actual history of the industry which has been one of the most surprising and 

 most interesting in our country, and which has done as much to improve the 

 condition of the people in the northwestern portion of the State, for instance, 

 as any one industry connected with agriculture. If he could have given us 

 full details as to the rise and progress of the industry as applied to cheese 

 and then as applied to butter, interesting things upon which he simply 

 touched, and extended his remarks with reference, for instance, to the con- 

 densed milk industry beyond the little town, to which we all give credit, 

 but which is still but one little town in Illinois, we should be pleased. 



E. P. McGlijstcy : When a man indulges in figures he seems to forget 

 the object he has in view ; in this paper, Mr. Lord has presented an array of 

 figures that is simply astounding, when you get beyond a certain number of 

 millions of gallons of milk, it is a pretty difficult matter to comprehend such 

 an amount. If Mr. Lord had been here in person he would doubtless have 

 told you that in 1870 our honored President was instrumental in establishing 

 the first creamery or butter factory west of the Lakes, that from that time 

 twelve or fourteen years later, we find that there are 450 butter and cheese 

 factories in the State, a large proportion of which are located in the north- 

 ern part of the State. But this dairy industry has been a good thing for the 

 northern part of the State and people outside of that are becoming interested 

 and it is extending until it has a place in the extreme southern part of the 

 State, and I might say, Mr. President, that it was from the most extreme 

 southern part of the State, that the only entry of butter from the great State 

 of Illinois, for the Exposition at New Orleans, came, from Clay County, 

 where they are just in their A B C of dairying. Those people down there re- 

 alize that this Exposition at :N'ew Orleans means business, and if I have an 

 opportunity of going down there I propose to give that man all the premi- 

 ums that belong to Illinois. If Mr. Lord had been here he would have open- 

 ed up for your benefit a large fund of information ; he would have shown 

 these people that while they may not be directly engaged in dairying, they 

 can be engaged in raising grain and cows to supply the northern part of the 

 State. He would have shown also, the course necessary to make this indus- 

 try a profitable one. He would have given you an idea of the markets, not 

 only our own local markets but abroad. In fact I think he would have cov- 

 ered the field so fully that there would have been no question raised as to 

 any lack of information in regard to the subject he was handling. 



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