84 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
the city during the year./ Of course, much more is received upon vanous 
roads, hut the writer has not the figures at command. - 
: : Throughout the country from whence the above supp tes ar ' 
located numerous cheese factories, which recetve and work ^ to 
amount of lacteal fluid. Twenty-five years ago this trade w ^ 
the West. With the present ratio, what will it become in an q 
0f 3 IntoTcLion, we present a few figures 
as were readily attainable, in reference to the milk business of the Fox 
The Illinois Condensing Factory, located in Elgin and managed by 
B. Jp.lLp. — 1,045,7*5 ol 
,0 ... 001 ,-»o p.™., ool “* ■ E«”““ 
The works are on a grand scale, and a source g P n densed 
thousand cans are made in the building each day and filled with condens 
milk and sold. . ,, , 
Manv factorvmen are diffident about furnishing data, or it wou a 
ST J have p— . - 
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business men as in the dairy district of Illinois. 
The transactions of the Elgin Board of Trade, which operates solely 
in dairy products, during the past year were rf follows: • 
Pounds of cheese sold, 6,673,386; pounds of butter sold, ’ 
Cheese ranged from seven to thirteen cents per pound, and butter from 
twenty-two to thirty-six cents. ^ 
The average sales of each meeting were ®29,975.83 4 . 
In connection with the above we give the following figures, as to totals 
i. p.«*. * in p.** "i *• y 
i i ...i. i nno 000 nounds for each working da) 
_ QO ^00 000 000 nounds, or about l,UOU,uuu pouuuB , 
Wa 5 5 , . i . -lift aaa AQO nounds was marketed abroad, 
of the year. Of this product 110,000,000 pounds pounds . 
The butter made during the same period is estimated at 8 , , P 
