﻿Report 
  of 
  Commissioner 
  of 
  Agriculture. 
  341 
  

  

  making 
  11,516,962 
  pounds 
  of 
  cheese, 
  and 
  8,301,173 
  pounds 
  of 
  

   butter, 
  being 
  nearly 
  40 
  per 
  cent, 
  of 
  the 
  amount 
  of 
  butter 
  reported 
  

   by 
  the 
  1896 
  factory 
  census 
  for 
  the 
  entire 
  State. 
  

  

  A 
  map 
  recently 
  prepared, 
  giving 
  the 
  location 
  of 
  all 
  butter 
  and 
  

   cheese 
  factories 
  of 
  this 
  division, 
  shows 
  a 
  total 
  number 
  of 
  339 
  

   factories. 
  This, 
  of 
  course, 
  does 
  not 
  include 
  the 
  large 
  number 
  

   of 
  milk-shipping 
  stations 
  that 
  manufacture 
  neither 
  butter 
  or 
  cheese. 
  

  

  SHIPPING 
  INTERESTS, 
  MILK 
  INSPECTIONS, 
  ETC. 
  

  

  The 
  enactment 
  of 
  the 
  agricultural 
  law 
  has 
  been 
  the 
  important 
  

   factor 
  which 
  has 
  resulted 
  in 
  the 
  growth 
  of 
  the 
  shipping 
  interests 
  

   to 
  their 
  present 
  proportions. 
  By 
  the 
  enforcement 
  of 
  the 
  law 
  the 
  

   quality 
  of 
  the 
  milk 
  sold 
  has 
  been 
  kept 
  at 
  a 
  legal 
  standard, 
  and 
  

   its 
  quality 
  has 
  been 
  so 
  much 
  improved 
  that 
  it 
  resulted 
  necessarily 
  

   in 
  a 
  largely 
  increased 
  consumption, 
  and 
  increased 
  the 
  demand 
  to 
  

   the 
  extent 
  that 
  the 
  producer 
  feels 
  assured 
  that 
  the 
  milk 
  shipped 
  

   by 
  him 
  is 
  now 
  sold 
  in 
  the 
  New 
  York 
  market 
  instead 
  of 
  being 
  dis- 
  

   placed 
  by 
  the 
  adulterated 
  mixture, 
  thus 
  guaranteeing 
  to 
  him 
  his 
  

   legitimate 
  trade. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  well 
  known 
  that 
  since 
  the 
  agricultural 
  law 
  was 
  enacted 
  the 
  

   increase 
  in 
  the 
  milk 
  supply 
  of 
  the 
  cities 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  far 
  exceeds 
  

   in 
  proportion 
  the 
  increase 
  in 
  population. 
  But 
  little 
  more 
  than 
  20 
  

   years 
  ago 
  Orange 
  county, 
  about 
  40 
  miles 
  from 
  New 
  York, 
  was 
  

   noted 
  as 
  a 
  butter-producing 
  county, 
  but 
  the 
  demand 
  for 
  milk 
  for 
  

   the 
  New 
  York 
  market 
  has 
  so 
  increased 
  that, 
  by 
  the 
  1896 
  census 
  

   report. 
  Orange 
  county 
  had 
  not 
  a 
  single 
  butter 
  or 
  cheese 
  factory, 
  

   the 
  factories 
  having 
  been 
  supplanted 
  by 
  the 
  milk-shipping 
  sta- 
  

   tions, 
  which 
  had 
  gradually 
  extended 
  their 
  territory 
  until 
  at 
  the 
  

   present 
  time 
  covering 
  this 
  division 
  and 
  extending 
  even 
  into 
  Onta- 
  

   rio 
  county. 
  

  

  "Within 
  the 
  year 
  there 
  has 
  been 
  a 
  marked 
  increase 
  in 
  the 
  pat- 
  

   ronage 
  of 
  the 
  milk-shipping 
  stations 
  of 
  this 
  division 
  by 
  reason 
  of 
  

   the 
  agitation 
  of 
  the 
  Five 
  States' 
  Milk 
  Producers' 
  Association, 
  an 
  

  

  