12 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
•md nail astern performed the arduous duty of drawing the lacteal fluid 
from the udder of the cow. From this early date, we drop down to the year 
mentioned above, without any remarkable incident worth relating. 
In the year 1835, Northern Illinois began to settle rapidly by Eastern 
people and the cow increased very much in numbers, and butter and cheese 
was*made in small quantities, but not enough for T ho ™. I'”? 1 “"bon- 
balance being supplied by New York and Ohio , In V*®’cheese 
densing Factory, located at Elgin, commenced the manufacture of cheese 
on the associated plan, making in that season about 2o,000 poun s. 
same season a factory was established at Bloomingdale, in Cook county, 
but we are not informed of the amount of cheese made in that factoiy. 
Cheese sold at this time, in the markets, for from six to eight^cents per 
pound From and after this cheese factories rapidly increased, and in I81O, 
is per United States census, Illinois had sixty-nine factories, and worked in 
them 173 males, and 24 females, and paid for their labor $32 72Mt being a 
fraction over $166 apiece. They worked up about 4 ;‘ 8 Y’ /4 lt " to „ et l er 
•md made 1 661,703 pounds of cheese, and the balance of the State, together 
withthe factories, made 36,085,405 pounds of butter, and used and sold the 
milk from 640,321 cows, which aggregated 14,006,664 gallons. This, then,is 
supposed to be the sum total of the dairy products of Illinois in that year. 
’ P In the year 1874, there was reported by the members of the Elgin Boaid 
of Trade as sold by them, 136,426 pounds of butter, and 2,955,Jig pounds o: 
bv said members, 225,175 pounds of butter, and 3,938,206 pounds ot chee. . 
These reports by no means cover anywhere near all the dairy products made 
in the State neither do they make any mention of the many thousands of gal 
on^of m Ik uTed by the condensing factory, and also those sold in Chicago, 
which together, may be counted by the millions. Nevertheless, enough has 
been reported to show a very large increase in the dairy interests of the 
S t a te We estimate the factories to have nearly, or quite, trebled m this 
State since 1870, making their number, at this time, about 200, and that the 
cows have fully quadrupled since that time, making their present number 
over 2 000,000. These figures are made without any positive data, and con¬ 
sequently are not fully reliable, but sufficiently so for our purpose at this 
tim Kow, having sketched a few thoughts on the past, allow us to turn our 
•ittention to the future prospects of the dairy interests of this State. And, 
In so doing, permit us to advert to our green pastures abounding m herd s 
„rass red-top, red and white clover, June grass, and the like, rasses 
which furnish the very sweetest and best of hay and pasturage, and, together 
with our springs, rills and rivulets of pure water, which adorn most of our 
pastures, and, where this is lacking, the ease with which we can supply, by 
windmills, this ever-needful aqueous fluid, which enters so largely into the 
composition of our milk, and which no cow giving a fiee flow of the same 
can well dispense with. Taking these things into account, and also the fact 
that we are located in a latitude favorable to the dairy interests, we see no 
good reason why the same should not succeed well in this State for years 
vp.t, to come. 
