ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 15 
Amount consumed as above. 
$ 42,887,500 
OO 
Cheese. 
312,543,923 pounds ( 5 ), 10 c 
653,000,ooo pounds @2oc 
3,600,000 gallons @ 10 c 
Butter . 
130,600,000 
360,000 
o'-* 
Condensed milk. 
OO 
Total amount of milk product in 1878. 
$205,101,822 50 
RECAPITULATION. 
The value of wheat, flour and bread exported.$122,698,054 
Wheat consumed at home, 1 bushel per capita, at$i per bushel... 47,000,000 
-$169,698,054 00 
We estimate the dairy product to exceed the wheat by.$ 35,403,838 30 
The dairy product of the country exceeds the entire exportation of all cereals. 
The exported cotton, manufactured and raw material, amounts to.$191,470,144 00 
The dairy product exceeds the cotton export by.$ 13,631,748 30 
In conclusion, we would most emphatically say that in 
our judgment the world is not over-stocked with dairy 
products, and more than that, we very much question 
whether it is ever likely to be so. 
Look to the southern states in our own country and 
you will see they are not likely to become either good but¬ 
ter or cheese makers. The question is asked, Why not ? 
We answer—Simply, because they do not raise the grasses 
necessary to do so. The spears of grass in some portions 
of those states are as scarcely seen as an honest politician 
in the country at large. 
Think you of the many millions of mouths to be sup¬ 
plied with one of the best of foods for the human system ; 
one that is universally received in its normal state by nearly 
or quite all of the mammals on the face of the earth. 
Cheese contains the nitrogenous and more or less of the 
phosphates of milk, and is better adapted to building up and 
sustaining the system than any othpr known solid food of 
similar cost. Butter is largely carbon, a substance necessa¬ 
rily called for and used by animals in sustaining the fire of 
life. You ask us how we know this to be a fact; we answer 
—by observation. Look with your mind’s eye to the 
Esquimau who lives in the far northern clime, where 
the mercury congeals in the winter, and hardly thaws dur¬ 
ing the summer, who takes the oil blubber (which is largely 
carbon) and drinks it with as much gusto as our toper does 
a glass of whisky and with much happier results. 
We believe it to be a duty that every manufacturer 
who is engaged in the manufacture of dairy products owes 
to himself, to make his goods of such quality as the market 
where he expects to sell demands. We see no good reason 
for commissioning perishable goods like butter and cheese. 
