82 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMENS ASSOCIATION. 
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comes from Cook, DuPage, Kane and McHenry connt.es, the famous Pox 
River valley furnishing three-fourths. Throughout these counties ar 
hundreds of splendid farms entirely devoted to dairying, and the milk is 
either shipped to Chicago per rail or sold to the numerous factories w .ere 
it is manufactured into butter and cheese. 
The milk is brought to Chicago in cans holding an average of eight 
gallons each, strongly made, the can and contents weighing about eig i y 
pounds. 
The milk being thoroughly cooled before it it is placed in the cans, ut 
little of it is injured in transit. 
Below is presented the figures of shipments from various towns to 
Chicage upon three of our railroad lines. 
The Chicago & Northwestern railroad is the largest shipper, as its lines 
run through the heart of the milk district. Mr. Schenck, the freig 
auditor, kindly furnished the shipments from each station upon his line or 
the past five years, and the aggregate presented is enormous, showing each 
year a constant and regular increase. 
Towns. 
Arlington Heights 
Barrington. 
Canfield. 
Cary .. 
Crystal Lake. 
County Line. 
Desplaines. 
Bark Ridge. 
Palatine. 
Plank Road. 
Ridgefield. 
Woodstock. 
Towns. 
Algonquin... 
Blackberry... 
Clintonville.. 
Creston. 
Dundee. 
Elgin. 
Elmhurst... 
Geneva . 
Gilberts..... 
Huntley .... 
Junction.... 
Kishwaukee 
La Fox. 
Lodi. 
Lombard .. 
Maywood... 
Wheaton... 
Winfield ... 
Wayne. 
WISCONSIN DIVISION. 
Gallons, 
1877. 
.280,740 
. 373,040 
. 23,680 
. 74,640 
. . 47,280 
. 9,228 
.233,400 
..88,988 
. . 8,000 
. 150,496 
.65,512 
galena division. 
Gallons, 
1877. 
.444,000 
. . 86,000 
.21,960 
..'.'.’.‘.*.’.'.‘.989,760 
. .21,056 
.52,400 
.’’.’.’.’.486,640 
.150,800 
...’’’. 12,080 
’ ’. ’. ’. ’. ’. ‘ ’. ’. ’. ’. ’. 74,560 
.!!! 70,688 
.!”. 28,400 
. ... 10,800 
. 19,576 
. .. 98,800 
3,987,324 
Total in 
five years. 
1,380,518 
1,895,596 
135,624 
407,088 
229.120 
52.712 
1,631,040 
OQ9 
520,684 
26,196 
643,640 
354.120 
Totalfcin 
five years- 
2,301,920 
294,240 
182,833 
408 
4,983,376 
206,536 
380,000 
7,848 
2,543,332 
586,656 
26,616 
17,520 
211,568 
1,920 
401,104 
93,352 
40,728 
109,528 
760.100 
20,698,094 
Total, 
