PART VI 



EXTRACTS FROM 



STATE DAIRY COMMISSIONERS 

 REPORT OF 1905. 



H. R. WRIGHT, COMMISSIONER. 



CONDITIONS OF THE DAIRY INDUSTRY. 



This report shows a larger amount of creamery butter made' 

 in the State than ever before reported for any year since such 

 reports have been made. Over 82,000,000 pounds of creamery 

 made butter are shown to have been manufactured in this State 

 for the year ending July i, 1905, and the make of butter since 

 that period has been phenomenal in amount. Not only is the 

 amount of butter very high, but the price obtained for it is 

 higher than the average price for any year since 1893. At 

 die average price for the twelve months ending July i, 1905, 

 the New York value of the creamery butter made in this state 

 was in excess of $20,000,000, nearly $5,000,000 more than 

 the value for the next preceding twelve months. 



Since 1900, the number of creameries in this State has been 

 steadily decreasing, so that now w& have 655 creameries and 

 skim stations, whereas in 1900 the list showed 994. It must 

 be understood, however, that there has not at any time been 

 any corresponding decrease in the dairy business of" the State, 



