ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 6l 
ae most skillful experts are employed, and where all the conditions 
ecessary to secure the best quality of butter and cheese are carefully 
onsidered. 
A successful dairyman must be a good farmer, a prompt, syste¬ 
matic business man, and, above all things, honest, and I might say, 
temperate in the use of water—not for drinking purposes, but as an 
rticle for reducing the quality of milk. The best and most successful 
managers of creameries and cheese factories use unadulterated milk 
mr making butter and cheese, and the consumer, I am sure, prefers 
me pure article for drinking, and for coffee and culinary purposes. 
From returns to the Agricultural Department of the State in 
880, I find the following statistics relating -to the dairy interests in 
mis state : 
umber of cows kept in 1880 . 613,738 
ounds of butter sold ..24,553,449 
sounds of cheese sold. 6,187,680 
The production of butter and cheese is yearly growing larger. I 
see by the papers that from June 18th to August 27th of this year 
lie receipts of cheese at New York city alone were 1,256,000 boxes, 
nd that the total production in the United States is estimated at over 
ne billion pounds. 
The reports to Congress show that the exports of butter in 1870 
/ere valued at the small sum of $592,229, and of cheese at $8,881,934, 
/hile in 1880 these exports were, for butter $6,690,687 and for cheese 
>12,171,720, an increase of more than too per cent, in ten years. 
We have laws in our State the purpose of which is to protect pure 
utter and cheese against fraudulent butter and cheese placed on the 
market, but they don’t seem to be enforced by the local authorities. 
Tiey ought to be enforced or repealed. The wicked practice of adul- 
srating butter and cheese and other articles of food and palming them 
ff upon the people as the pure article should be broken up. 
If further legislation is found to be necessary let us have it. Hon- 
st butter, and cheese, and sugars, and syrups, and spices, cannot keep 
meir places in the market if they are to be placed in competition with 
rticles of the same name and appearance, but which are spurious. It 
: well known that Illinois leads the other States in meat packing, in 
me lumber traffic, malt and distilled liquors, the nmanuiactures of agri- 
ultural implements, and in the number of miles of railroad, while the 
alue of our coal product is exceeded only by two other States. 
I noticed, a few days ago, that our worthy Commissioners of In- 
srnal Revenue reports that Illinois pays an internal revenue tax of 
early twenty-six millions of dollars for 1881, which is six and a half 
millions more than is paid by any other State, and which is one-fifth 
f the whole amount collected in the United States, while our popula- 
on is only about one sixteenth. The industries of any country, in 
rder to be profitable, must be diversified, and in our State they are 
ecoming more and more so. The time is coming soon when our 
'tate will not be so distinctively an agricultural State in contrast with 
ther interests. It will not be long before it will be a great manufac- 
mring State. Our soil is rich almost beyond comparison, and because 
/e have the soil and can produce the food in abundance, your towns 
