ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
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about a dozen tubs for sale, and who after spending hours in trying to 
sell his butter finally found a hotel keeper who offered him 12 cts. 
per pound, provided he would take his note due a few months hence, 
saying at the same time the butter was too good to be profitable for 
him to purchase as his guests would eat twice as much of it as they 
would ot eight cent butter. How with cheese ? About this time we 
had a few hundred pounds of full cream cheese made on our farm for 
sale, for which we were offered all the way from five to seven cents 
per pound for it by Chicago buyers. We finally bartered it off' for 
eight cents a pound. Last week we paid eighteen cents a pound 
for cheese in Elgin not as good as that we sold thirty-five years 
ago for eight cents. 
Creamery butter sold last week on the Elgin Board of Trade for 
43 cts. a pound. 
Does this show the dairy business as over done in this vicinity at 
the present time? We think not. 
The increase of the population in the United States for the last 
decade has been 11,230,185. Now give 14 pounds of butter to each, 
the amount computed as used per capita in this country, and we 
would require an additional make of over 157,000,000 pounds for 
home consumption alone, over the make for home use in 1870. 
The acquisitiveness of some, -.yea many of our American people, 
have induced not a few to commit various grave errors in the form 
of adulteration of the various kinds of food for human consumption, 
and amongst the many, perhaps none have suffered more than that of 
the dairy. 
This has had, and is having an injurious effect on our exportation 
of dairy products. How long this thing will be allowed to exist no 
one knows. 
Perhaps there is no country in the civilized world where adulteration 
is carried on to such prelection as in the United States. 
A careful observer can but notice the result of this on the physical 
and mental condition of our people. Who is there, or where can we 
find a person that has lived to see a score ot years, who is perfectly 
sound in health and mind? Look at our asylums and see the fearful 
increase of mental disease there, and then quietly ask yourselves 
how much of this is the work of adulteration of our food. 
The largest exportation of our own dairy products is to England. 
Mexico draws her supplies of this product almost solely through 
that source, although only divided from us by a comparativly small riv¬ 
er. Such has been our commercial relations with her that but very little 
if any of our dairy goods have reached her markets direct. The pros¬ 
pect now appears favorable for a railway connection with the City of 
Mexico in the. near future, which may result largely to the benefit of 
the dairymen of this country. Some of the South American States 
import butter and cheese, not directly however from this country, but 
through our English cousins on the other side of the great Salt Pond. 
By suitable exertions on our part could we not reach that trade 
direct and thereby benefit the dairymen of the United States? 
In taking a careful survey of the dairy and its connections we are 
constrained to repeat what we have often said before, that we firmly 
