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ILLINOIS STATE DAIKYMEN’s ASSOCIATION. 
The population of the United States and Territories in 1870 was 38,558 371. 
ISow allowing the increase to be the same per year as it has been for the ten 
preceding years, it would aggregate in 1874, 41,404,391 souls. Now allow 
three pounds of cheese to eacli individual, (which is the estimated amount 
consumed in the United States,) and we have disposed of 124,213,173 pounds 
of cheese here at home. Add this to the amount exported this year, and 
y e have comparatively a good estimate of the amount of cheese disposed of 
in 1874, which according to our figures amounts to 218,430,639 pounds. 
Should England increase her demand another year in the same proportion 
as she has for the year just closing, and should the United States increase 
its population and demand in the same proportion as for a year past, we 
should need to manufacture 226,882,851 pounds of cheese to supply'the 
demands for 1875. 
Prior to 1S72 cheese manufactured in this vicinity was either sold at the 
factoiy or sent forward to commission men for sale, who after selling 
deducted their commission and sent the balance if any to the factory men 
whose net receipts ranged all the way from four to seven or eight cents per 
Pound. About this time a little incident occurred in the way of marketing 
cheese which illustrates pretty well the commission business. Perhaps it 
may be familiar to you all. Nevertheless it tells so well it may not be amiss 
to relate it here. It tells something like this : 
Some few years ago our friend owned or operated a cheese factory and 
made a, certain amount of cheese which he sent to a commission merchant 
not a thousand miles distant to sell on commission. After a time he sent 
requesting a remittance, but to his surprise received a letter stating his 
cheese was so dry and chippy it had to be sold for little more than the com¬ 
mission. Well, our friend being busy and not hard pressed for money, laid 
the letter by and gave it no f urther attention for a few weeks, when he 
again addressed the firm requesting a settlement. This time he received an 
answer stating his cheese was so soft that the whey run out and half way 
across the floor of the house, and consequently the cheese had to be sold for 
little more than the commission. He took his two letters, visited the 
parties, and adjusted the matter. 
e trust an occurrence like the above does not often happen, for we 
firmly believe that all commission men are not so forgetful as to be thus 
caught. 
About three years ago many of the dairymen in this vicinity met and 
organized a Board of Trade for the sale of dairy products manufactured in 
the vicinity. Although this Board has been in operation for nearly three 
years, cheese has never been sold on it for less than eight cents or more 
than fifteen cents per pound, if my memory serves me, and butter has 
brought from thirty to forty-five cents. 
In 1851 Mr. Jesse Williams, of Home, New York, adopted the clieese-vat 
and inaugurated the associated system of manufacturing milk into cheese 
