ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
I I 
whole lands of the country is given at fifteen dollars and four cents 
per acre! Now the question is, can English dairymen afford to pay 
the above rental price of land and continue in the dairy business, so 
long as we are allowed to put our dairy goods upon their market for 
only about one cent per pound additional cost to their value in our 
markets? We anticipate the answer that may be made right here 
that our cheese is not as good as their home manufactured. We can 
but admit the fact—for it is without doubt a fact—that within the 
last two or three years we have sent them much poor butter and 
cheese. 
It is also a fact that we have sent them much that will compare 
favorably with their home make or other importations. In verifica¬ 
tion of this statement as to the richness of our own cheese, compared 
with other brands found in the English market, you will please 
allow us to give an analysis of some six different brands of cheese 
reported in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, a work of English produc¬ 
tion, which should be perfectly reliable in statistics and facts given 
so far as that country is concerned. Therefore we quote from it the 
following : 
ANALYSIS. 
BRAND. 
Water. 
Caseine. 
Fat. 
Milk 
Sugar. 
Asht. 
Salt. 
Stilton (Supposed to be night’s cream to 
morning’s milk). 
Double Gloucester. 
Cheddar, full cream. 
American full cream. 
Parmesan (Skimmed). 
Neufchatel (Reported wholly cream 
cheese. 
20.27 
33-41 
3 0 . 3 2 
27.29 
27.56 
36.58 | 
33-45 
2 7-75 
28.18 
25.87 
44.08 
8.00 
43-98 
32.69 
35-53 
35-41 
* 5-95 
40.71 
2.23 
1.66 
6.21 
6.69 
15-80 
2.20 
3 92 
4 - 3 1 
5 - 22 
5-72 
0.51 
It is much to be regretted that the different markets which we 
select to place our butter require so much difference in make. Butter 
salted for American consumption would hardly be tolerated in the 
English market. 
Cheese made for the Southern trade requires to be flat or thin, 
v hile a flat cheese is not wanted in the English market. Therefore 
our dairymen are required to make a different sample of each of 
these staples to suit the market for which it is destined, and if a sur¬ 
plus on one of these markets the other may take it but verv reluc¬ 
tantly, if at all. 
