Souvenir of the Illinois dairy exhibit, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893 . > cc Hi < LUCC o cco H <cc< LU co 10 ILLINOIS DAIRY EXHIBIT. probably the first on the co-operative plan, was startedin Kane County by Henry Sherman and B. F. Webster,one and one-half miles west of Elgin. This factoryproved a success, and many others were soon afterwardsstarted on the same plan. FIRST CREAMERY. In the year 1870, Dr. Jos. Tefft and Mr. J. started a creamery at Elgin, the first inthe State. This creamery was located near a cool,clear spring of water. The milk was brought to thefacto
Souvenir of the Illinois dairy exhibit, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893 . > cc Hi < LUCC o cco H <cc< LU co 10 ILLINOIS DAIRY EXHIBIT. probably the first on the co-operative plan, was startedin Kane County by Henry Sherman and B. F. Webster,one and one-half miles west of Elgin. This factoryproved a success, and many others were soon afterwardsstarted on the same plan. FIRST CREAMERY. In the year 1870, Dr. Jos. Tefft and Mr. J. started a creamery at Elgin, the first inthe State. This creamery was located near a cool,clear spring of water. The milk was brought to thefactory and set in tin cans in this cold water. Thefirst churning from the creamery was taken toChicago and sold for ten cents per pound more thanthe market price. It must be remembered that atthis time, and for years before, Illinois was obligedto send to New York and other Eastern Statesfor her dairy products. We look at the growthof Chicago as being marvelous, but it is not more sothan the growth of the dairy industry of a generation ago we shipped a tub of b
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