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Illinois Cow Milk Revenue Tops One Hundred Million
Springfield reports that Illinois milk and dairy products earned 101,563,830 last year, funded by 4.5 million pounds of milk at 2.23 per hundredweight. The average farm home netted about 450 from milk sales, about 100 per person on farms. The report notes milk income is steady, with peak production in spring and summer. Health data show rises in diphtheria and scarlet fever but a general downward trend downstate.
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Illinois
J., Stanard
Agriculture of
A. J. Surratt
Stanard
L D. Rawdings
State Department of Health
Firestone
Oldfield