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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
BACKACHE POSITIVELY CURED BY DR. MENDUS’ CONCENTRATED TRIPLE EXTRAC 
OF BUTTER. 
FOURTEEN REASONS WHY IT EXCELS ALL OTHER REMEDIES IN THE WORLD I 
ITS URBEFACIENT, STIMULATING, SEDATIVE AND COUNTER-IRRITANT 
EFFECTS. 
NO SUFFERER FROM ANY DISEASE WHATEVER NEED DESPAIR WHO IS WILLIN 
TO GIVE A FAIR TRIAL TO DR. MENDUS’ FAMOUS BUTTER. 
What a descent from such lofty pinnacles as these of ornament and healing to th 
vulgar uses of the table ! as an article of merchandise in the food market, inseparabl 
allied with cheese, which has no such magnificent history. 
But, even as used among us butter has, in English literature and in the minds c 
English read people, a very pretty place. 
The name of the dairy carries with it an aroma of romance suggesting a retrei 
delightfully cool and sweet, kept so by its spotless stone floor and its flowing sprin 
of limpid water. And the presiding genius of the place, the dairy maid of poetry an 
song, is proverbially pretty and bewitching. 
“ Her face so sweet, 
Her dress so neat, 
Her voice is melody itself.” 
If we had space we might quote largely from the poets, English, Scotch and Irisl 
who have, almost without exception, left a line or more of flattering mention of thi 
indispensable feature of rural life. Indeed, the most popular character before thi 
public to-day is Patience, the dairy-maid, the charming little heroine of Gilbert < 
Sullivan’s favorite opera. 
But, alas! In spite of the laudable efforts of poets, dramatists and novelists t 
perpetuate in song and story the poetry of the dairy, the hard, practical, matter-oi 
fact spirit of the day is determined it shall be preserved only in tradition. 
Since the advent of the modern creamery and the frequent assembling of dairy 
men’s conventions, tender sentiment in regard to butter and cheese is perceptibly 6 
the wane. There is not the faintest flavor of romance about butter made by men an 
machinery, butter the subject of discussion by grave, deliberative bodies. Butte 
under the rule of presidents and processes is hopelessly sunk in the depths of the pro 
saic, no matter in what other sense it may be high. 
I am told that among the most extensive business enterprises of the day rank 
that of manufacturing butter and cheese, and as a source of profit to the people it i 
no doubt of the greatest importance. 
Seriously, no one can regret the rise from a limited private industry to a grea 
public enterprise with all the benefits and advantages it bestow T s. And there is root 
for a suspicion that the poetry of the old, laborious way of doing this work may hav 
been more in the conception of those who wrote and sung of it, than in the actua 
execution. Be that as it may, we might as w r ell make the best of the inevitable am 
rejoice in the change which opens new avenues of industry and supplies the peopl 
with so desirable a luxury as that of which we have been speaking. 
We must content ourselves with the dairy poetry of the past, for this is a practica 
work-a-day world, and in this particularly prosaic age of it we can perhaps get alonj 
better without sentiment than without butter. 
OHIO DAIRYING; ITS METHODS AND TENDENCIES. 
BY JOHN GOULD, AGRICULTURAL EDITOR CLEVELAND HERALD. 
Dairying in Ohio is coexistant with its history, and upon the Western Reserve 
that especially distinguished province of Ohio, dairying has been its chief industry 
and substantially it may be said that the white farm-houses, its schools, colleges anc 
churches, are the visible evidences of a uniformly prosperous occupation. And whil* 
the production of grain has increased to twelve million bushels for the three great sta¬ 
ples, wheat, corn and oats, the increase of butter and cheese has gone steadily for¬ 
ward, and the dairymen are compensated in a greater degree than these figures indi 
cate, for with grain-raising has come a more prospereus farming, better stock, bettei 
yields, and for the present we will say better butter, hence enhanced prices. 
The New England pioneer to this state was not forgetful of his butter and cheese 
and so part of his personal property brought to Ohio was the family cow, and to re¬ 
duce traveling expenses the western emigrant often yoked together two cow t s, and 
they upon the journey held the doubly important position of load team and dairy sup¬ 
ply company, limited, upon the long, six weeks’ journey. 
As may be inferred, the increase of stock kept apace with the clearings, and even 
prior to the war of 1812, the production of butter and cheese had become so genera 
that the inhabitants w r ere amply supplied, and as freight transportation was unknown 
