332 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



RAILWAY BUTTER SHIPMENTS. 



The following tables are made up from the statistics furnished 

 by all the railroads of the State showing the amount of butter 

 shipped from points in Iowa to points outside the State. Little 

 or no butter is imported into the State in any form and the figures 

 in the following tables practically represent the surplus produc- 

 tion of the State. It is estimated that about 65,000,000 pounds 

 of butter are made and consumed in the State, so that the total 

 production is about 140,000,000 pounds, having an aggregate 

 value of §28,000,000. 



'In the following tables the numbers showing pounds of butter 

 shipped from each county must not be understood as represent- 

 ing the amount of butter produced in the respective counties. 

 For instance, the counties highest on the list — Woodbury, Polk 

 andLee— are not large producers of butter. Woodbury and 

 Polk counties contain centralized creameries making large 

 quantities of butter, and all of these counties have process but- 

 ter factories making large quantities of butter, but none of them 

 are the source of any great proportion of the butter which is 

 manufactured and shipped in the county. The same thing is 

 true, in less degree, in regard to other counties. 



