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Rural School Leaflet. 



Using round numbers we may say that 6,000,000,000 pounds of milk 

 are produced annually by New York cows (2.15 pounds is the weight of 

 one quart). Milk is used for: (i) food, (2) butter, (3) cheese, (4) con- 

 densed milk, (5) miscellaneous purposes. 



Milk as food. — It is estimated that the average person uses .6 of a 

 pint of milk daily as a beverage or in food. This is about one glassful. 

 The amount might well be increased since milk is most nutritious and 



Fig. 44. — Making cheese at the College of Agriculture 



cheap as compared with other foods. On this basis, the more than seven 

 million residents of our state use as food every year over 1,600,000,000 

 pounds of milk. Most of this has to be carried a considerable distance to 

 the consumer. A part of the milk used in New York City is hauled in 

 trains from stations three to four hundred miles away. According to 

 our State Department of Agriculture, there are about 700 milk stations 

 in the State. As a rule the milk when delivered in our largest cities is 

 twenty-four to thirty-six hours old. This is one reason why milk for the 



