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The above amoiiut of milk does not include milk sold to con- 

 densers, most of which reaches the New York market in small 

 cans, which is estimated to equal 1,800,000 cans. 



Estimated value |2,700,000 00 



Estimated value as shown above 14,078,823 49 



Grand total 116,778,323 49 



The above receipts of milk, cream and condensed milk is equal 

 to 10,908,921 cans of crude milk of forty quarts each or 438,756,840 

 quarts, representing a daily receipt of 1,202,073 quarts of crude 

 milk. 



The value of milk handled in New York and Brooklyn for daily 

 consumption as shown by the foregoing statistics is enormous. 

 The crude milk represented by these figures, after reducing the 

 cream and condensed milk to the equivalent of crude milk, shows 

 a production of 30,051 cans, equal to 1,202,073 quarts of crude 

 milk, consumed daily in the two cities. 



This large product is all transferred from the railroads and 

 steamboats during the night, and is observed by but few of our 

 citizens; therefore, the magnitude of the trade in this necessary 

 article of food is not fully recognized. I think I am warranted in 

 stating that no article of food consumed in the cities will equal 

 milk in value, and I have no hesitation in stating that there is no 

 article of food, that it is possible to adulterate, that does not con- 

 tain a greater percentage of adulteration than the milk that has 

 been delivered to the consumer during the past eight years, or 

 since the Dairy Commission and Department of Agriculture have 

 given careful attention to the milk as shipped by th eproducer 

 and sold by the dealer. 



There has been a great deal of excitement during the last season 

 in regard to the sale of adulterated milk which the condition of 

 the milk sold did not warrant, as the greater volume of milk sold 

 was, and still is, fully up to the State standard, only a small per- 

 centage being adulterated, and this small percentage, not over five 

 per cent, of the whole, being adulterated by added water or skim- 



