FIFTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART V. 329 



TABLE No. 3. 



The dairy commissioner very greatly regrets that it is im- 

 practicable to get an absolutely perfect report of the butter made 

 in the State. The many changes in the management of cream- 

 eries makes it impossible in some cases for the report to be 

 given. It has been the policy of this department to secure as 

 complete a report as possible and then to assume that the cream- 

 eries that do report make up a fair average for all the creame- 

 ries of the State. The following table will show the very great 

 increase in the amount of butter made from cream, as well as 

 an increase in the amount of butter made by each creamery, all 

 of which, of course, was to be expected. The rapid growth of 

 the use of the hand separator and the tendency towards concen- 

 tration in the creamery business are both well known. About 

 forty per cent of our butter is made from cream, mostly of the 

 hand separator variety ; the remainder is still made from whole 

 milk. 



As shown by previous reports of this office, and by the suc- 

 ceeding table as well, about ten per cent of the creamery ^butter 

 is consumed in the State, and more than half of this amount by 

 the patrons of the creameries themselves. 



