ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 13 
cheese and throw their products on the market, they are 
not largely your competitors only so far as our own country 
is concerned. We must look to Europe for the larger part 
of the competition which we are likely to meet. France 
alone exports to England more value in butter than the 
entire United States does in both butter and cheese. Den- 
mai k is also exporting a large amount of fine butter to 
England, and so, also, is Sweden. 
We saw Swedish butter (if our memory serves us) at 
the New York fair, put up in something like a wash-tub and 
covered with two thicknesses of coarse cloth, which had 
been exhibited at a fair in Europe and then sent across the 
Atlantic for exhibition at the fair in New York. This butter 
smelled and tasted rather old on top, but was solid and 
sweet further down in the package. 
This is the kind of butter that you have to compete 
with in the European markets, butter that is so made that 
it will cross the Atlantic ocean in a wash-tub and hold its 
fine flavor. England imports both butter and cheese from 
us to export to other countries. Now why should we sit 
upon our haunches with folded arms and allow England or 
any other country to import for the purpose of exporting 
our goods ? Why not open our eyes to the situation and 
export direct to those countries, and save the commission 
through English hands ? 
The Hon. W. G. Laduc, commissioner of agriculture, 
Washington, D. C., informs us in his report for 1878, page 
287, that fully three-fourths of our export of butter and 
cheese is to Great Britain. The balance is to British 
America and the West Indies. On further examination of 
said report, we find on page 292 a much fuller statement, 
giving the names of countries where we have exported 
butter and cheese, with the amount to each country. We 
have copied this for the purpose of correcting an error 
which has crept into some of our conventions in this state, 
as well as other states. We allude to dairy, as compared 
with other statistical reports. We here give a few of the 
exports for 1878 : 
