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EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



Dairy statistics hy States — Continued. 



"The total production of milk on farms in the United States in the year ending 

 December 31, 1889 (not including farms of less than 3 acres, except where $500 worth 

 of the produce of the farm had been actually sold during the year), was .5,209,125,567 

 gal., equivalent to 3I5J gal. for each milch cow reported on June 1, 1890, and to 83 

 gal. per head of population. 



"The total production of butter on farms (as above defined) in the year ending 

 December 31, 1889, was 1,024,223,468 lbs., as compared with a total of 777,250,287 lbs. 

 in 1879, and the total production of clieese, 18,726,818 lbs., as compared with a total 

 of 27,272,489 lbs. iu 1879, an increase of 246,973,181 lbs., or 31.78 per cent in the j)ro- 

 ductiou of butter on farms, and a decrease of 8,545,671 lbs., or 3 per cent, in the 

 production of cheese on farms. . . . 



"The most noteworthj' fact in connection with the production of butter on farms 

 is that, notwithstanding the great extension of the creamery system and the decline 

 in the amount of butter annually exported, such production has increased even more 

 rapidly than population. To go back to the census of 1850, it is found that the total 

 production of butter on farms in 1849 was 313,345,306 lbs., or 13.51 lbs. per capita of 

 of population. In 1860 tho amount reported was 459,681,372 lbs., or 14.62 lbs. per 

 capita. In 1870 the amount reported was 514,092,083 lbs., which gave an average of 

 only 13.33 lbs. for each inhabitant. Up to this time there had been no creamery but- 

 ter reported, but in 1880 the production of farm butter averaged 15.50 lbs. for each 

 inhabitant, and that of creamery butter 0.58 lb. for each inhabitant, the total aver- 

 age being thus 16.08 lbs. At the Eleventh Census, however, the ]iroduction of but- 

 ter on farms alone averaged 16.33 lbs. i)er capita of the population, and such had 

 been the increase in tho production of butter iu creameries that the total production 

 of butter averaged no less than 19.24 lbs. per unit of the population. . . . 



"The whole of the States from which a smaller production of farm butter is 

 reported than at the Tenth Census belong to the North Atlantic Division. Every 

 other portion of the country shows an increase in its i>roduction of butter on farms, 

 and, as a rule, the States that have witnessed the greatest extensions of the creamery 

 system, such as Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska, show also the greatest 

 increase in the production of butter on farms. The North Central Division, which 

 produced 72.03 per cent of the total production of creamery butter, produced 50.83 per 

 cent of the total amount of farm butter, and its production, both on farms and in 

 creameries, jicr capita of the poi>ulation, is much higher than that of any other of 

 the 5 grand divisions of States. . . . 



