ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMP2N’s ASSOCIATION. 
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allowing table gives the quantities in pounds of cheese exported from 
he single port of New York: 
•iverpool .. 
^ndon_ 
Uasgow.... 
Iristol. 
■ardiflf. 
lull. 
Newcastle., 
lavre . 
lamburg.. 
Iremen .... 
>ther ports 
Total 
Same time 
Total. 
last vear. 
61,635,760 
64.271,007 
11,112,068 
8,833,361 
is.igs,^ 
15.270,2^9 
7,267,206 
9,771 070 
238 083 
932.960 
1,107,076 
250,141 
719,493 
509,819 
, v ( , , t f 
120,980 
951,670 
119,2-0 
42,942 
57-\480 
. 2,451,519 
1,715 850 
103,874,187 
102,290,370 
The total export of butter for the same period this year, and to 
learly the same ports, was 14,549,773 pounds—a slight falling off from 
he quantity exported during the corresponding period in 1880. 
Another item may also possess an interest to dairymen in this 
;onnection, and that is, that the shipments of oleomargarine from New 
)l ork for the same time aggregated 4,220,573 pounds, but for the cor¬ 
esponding time last year they were 5,999,036. “ Oleo-Margarine ” 
loes not seem to be in quite as good odor with foreigners this year as 
ast. What the entire exports of dairy goods for the year will be, 
if course, cannot now be definitely given, but that a considerable in- 
:rease over former years has occurred is now certain. And this, too, 
lotwithstanding that imitations or spurious articles—as oleomargarine, 
mtterine, suine, etc — have entered into competition with genuine 
mtter. 
Before referring especially to the opportunities presented for culti¬ 
vating foreign markets, let us briefly consider the home consumption 
if cheese. The cheese product of the United States per annum is 
ibout 400,000,000 pounds, and, as stated above, we send abroad about 
125,000,000 pounds annually, which leaves 275,000,000 pounds as the 
quantity consumed at home. England has a population of 25,000,000 
ind her annual consumption, according to Hon. N. A. Willard, is over 
500,000,000 pounds, or 20 pounds per capita. To consume our entire 
mnual product at home would only be at the rate of eight pounds per 
;apita. Mr. Willard is also authority for saying (and you know his is 
nigh and reliable authority), that if we used cheese as freely in this 
:ountry as it is eaten in England our annual consumption would re¬ 
quire one thousand million pounds. It is, then, of much importance 
:hat our cheese-makers shall study the home market, or study the 
most feasible measure of increasing the consumption of cheese at 
nome. It is gratifying to know that this consumption is increasing, 
and that during the past two or three years it has been augmented 
from 12,000,000 to 15,000,000 pounds annually. But this increase is 
due, in no small degree to the rapid influx of a foreign population. 
Aa idea of the magnitude of the stream of foreign immigration is 
gained by the statement recently published from the statistics that 
179,743 Germans arrived during the nine months in 1881 ending with 
September 30, and of all nationalities for one year ending July 31, 
700,000 arrived taking all the ports together, It is not likely that’ the 
number arriving annually will decrease for some years to come. 
