ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. j^^j 



all we can ask of process butter. It should not be sold as imitation 

 creamery. 



Perhaps the less said about m ilk the better. But there is no question 

 that milk is better now than it was ten or even five years ago. St. Paul 

 and Minneapolis are largely supplied with pastuerized milk. Pour hun- 

 dred gallons of pastuerized milk is sold in Minneapolis today. Some of 

 these cities are supplied exclusively by Jersey herds and the average is 

 5 or 6 per cent fat. 



Chicago, the last city to take hold of the selling of pure milk, has 

 a system of delivering milk in bottles, and it has taken a firm hold and 

 is much cleaner than several years ago. 



CHICAGO MILK MARKET. 



Within a space scarcely ten miles square dwell two million people. 

 Two million people to be fed and housed and clothed with material 

 produced from the farm, the mine, and the forest. The arteries of com- 

 merce carry the crude material from almost every clime to Chicago — the 

 heart of manufacturing industry. 



Milk, owing to its brief life, must be procured within a few hours' ride 

 of Chicago. As that city is bounded on the east by Lake Michigan, and 

 on the south by a swamp, the milk producing territory is limited to two 

 sides. Into this territory, to an average depth of eighty miles, twenty- 

 one lines of railway carry the vital food to the city. Piercing the swamp 

 and skirting the lake, the Pittsburg & Ft. Wayne and the Grand Trunk 

 reach to Valparaiso. The Baltimore & Ohio runs milk trains to Walker- 

 ton, and the Erie to Kouts. Leaving Indiana and passing into Illinois, 

 the Wabash and Illinois Central carry as far as Monee and Mokena. Dip- 

 ping to the south west, the Santa Fe and Rock Island run milk trains to 

 Joliet. To the west, the Chicago & Great Western brings from Byron; 

 the Chicago «S: Northwestern from Harvard; and the Milwaukee from 

 Huntley. Other divisions of the Northwestern find their milk shipping 

 termini near Aurora and Sycamore. The Wisconsin disvision of the 

 Northwestern runs a milk train to Rockford. To the north the Milwau- 



