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two things with reference to this matter. This gentleman, Mr. Lord, is a 

 Kane County man. Another point, speaking of the name of Elgin butter, 

 we find in the market reports from New York and other centers, Elgin but- 

 ter is quoted in the winter season, almost invariably at one to three cents 

 above eastern butter, and I see they state in connection with that, that ev- 

 erything that is sold on the Elgin Board of Trade is designated as Elgin 

 butter. 



The President ; I think I understood Mr. Morrow, to say that he 

 thought this account of milk given in the report at Washington was correct. 

 I should beg to dilfer very much from him in that respect. I thhik that if 

 he figures it down carefully he will find that a cow averages according to this 

 report about 2 6-10 quarts of milk per day. Now a cow that don't give more 

 than that is good for nothing but the shambles. It was because of that re- 

 port that I said what I did in my paper ; I thought it was doing wrong to the 

 country generally to report that our cows didn't give over 2 6-10 quarts of 

 milk a day. 



J. R . Scott : Unless I misapprehended this gentleman's figures it seems 

 to me they came very far short of what they ought to be. I think he made 

 the statement for instance, that twenty five quarts of milk per cow was all 

 that was necessary to raise the calves. I want to say if that is the basis of 

 his statement, I think he is about as far wide of the facts as the Commission- 

 er is as to what a cow will produce, because twenty-five quarts of milk will 

 not keep a calf very long. 



Mr. White: I presume in making that statement he remembers that a 

 very large proportion of our calves in the dairy district are never fed at all, 

 but slaughtered at birth. 



Mr. Hostetter : When these estimates are made, don't they take the 

 amount of milk and butter sold and reported as the average instead of what 

 is not reported There is a great deal of butter that is not reported sold, for 

 instance, my butter is not reported sold, like the butter on the Elgin Board 

 of Trade. What goes to provide farmers and hotels is not reported in the 

 general statistics of the country. They don't come in at all and that reduces 

 the average of each cow very much. 



The President : The census report gives over 777,000,000 of butter 

 that is made, and that is calculated to take in all made on farms. 



Dr. Mills : I want to speak of Borden's condensed milk, I used to be 

 in the army and we used it with the army, and especially with the sick, way 

 down as far as Atlanta and it was perfectly safe, good and sweet. I do not 

 know why milk is not more used in our families. I regard it as the cheap- 

 est food one can use. You can buy two quarts for six cents and I know of 

 nothing at the same price, in which there is so much nutriment. Another 

 thing, somebody made the remark a number of years ago, that he 

 thought the number of cows kept in a State was an indication of the civili- 

 zation, that if 500 cows were kept in one country, and in another of equal 

 area 400 were kept, in the one keeping 500 there was the more civilization. 



Thb President: Mr. Lord made his figures as to the number of cows as 

 per the census, which is 865,000. Now that census was taken in 1880. To- 

 day there are a million C3ws in the state, and I make the amount of pro- 

 perty in dairying, in Illinois, $266,636,797, which includes : 



