ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 71 
:he exception of one sale of 50 boxes full creams at 13 cents, October 4. 
From the table published below it will be seen that the total 
ransactiohs are far in excess of what they ever were before in any 
me year, and in number of boxes of cheese and aggregate value of 
gutter and cheese are greatly in excess of the sales of the Utica, New 
^ork, for the year 1881, or of the Little Falls, Boards for the same 
period. At the former the sales were 240,476 boxes, aggregating 
[4,444,760 pounds,and sold for $1,615,184.17. At Little Falls, the 
sales were 253,025 boxes, aggregating 15,181,500 pounds, and sold for 
f 1,653,766.34. It will be observed that the cheese sold on the Elgin 
Board exceeded either of the above in boxes; but fell short two to 
;hree millions of pounds. 
The accompanying table shows the sales by months on the Board: 
MONTHS. 
Boxes Cheese 
Sold. 
Pounds. 
Av. Price. 
Pounds of 
Butter Sold. 
Av. Price. 
Total Sales. 
January. 
32,992 
1,371,188 
8% 
278,473 
32 
$ 189,976.41 
February. .. 
21,724 
817,457 
10 
249,822 
3214 
162,469.14 
Vlarch. 
22,765 
914,920 
9 1-5 
374,680 
32 2-5 
227,493.22 
\.pril.. 
19,007 
667,653 
8 % 
259,371 
30 
149,641.81 
Vlay. 
21,413 
805,348 
8 
304,800 
22 1-5 
139,997.00 
Tune. 
29,105 
1,280,119 
656 
407,683 
20 
172,998.32 
July. 
18,625 
8 5,329 
7 
262,597 
22 
111,164.14 
August . 
26,417 
1,096,698 
9 
390.961 
27 
194,557.79 
September... 
24,082 
872,448 
ll’i 
266,297 
33 
198,947.28 
October. 
25,037 
961,086 
10 % 
379.307 
34% 
239,427.40 
November... 
12,844 
480,622 
9 1-5 
264,559 
37 2-5 
143,049.75 
December... 
33,673 
1,254.657 
8H 
430,079 
42 
289,877.78 
Total. .. 
287,664 
11,327,525 
9 
3,868,629 
30M 
$2,219,600.04 
It will be seen by the above that nearly two and a quarter mil¬ 
lions of dollars were distributed among the milk producers of this sec- 
don during the year, which, to say the least, is an exceedingly hand¬ 
some sum, and far more than all other branches of agriculture have 
paid for the same time. Beside, the money is distributed monthly, 
:hus giving the farmers and others who are interested in this industry, 
Lheir funds at regular intervals. If we would add to this the amount 
paid for milk at the Elgin Condensing Factory and for milk shipped 
:o Chicago from points tributary to the Elgin Board of Trade, as well 
as the total product of all the factories represented on the Board, we 
would find that the amount of money paid for milk, butter and cheese 
would aggregate fully five millions of dollars. 
By comparison we find that the average price of cheese through 
the year has been 9 cents, and butter 30^ cents. The highest price 
paid for cheese at Utica, New York, was 13^ cents ; at Little Falls, 
13 cents ; at Elgin, 13 cents. In both cases the cheese was full cream. 
The lowest price paid at Utica was S l / 2 ; at Little Falls, 7 ; at Elgin, 
5 ; and the Elgin product was part skims, while the other were full 
:reams. These comparisons are useful in that they show that, while 
'comparatively a small portion of Illinois is engaged in dairying, and 
hat while a large portion of the milk from that section is used as an 
irticle of food in its natural condition, Illinois holds a proud rank as a 
)utter and cheese producing state. 
