EIGHTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VIII. 



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CREAMERY BUTTER MANUFACTURED. 



In the following table is given the amount of creamery butter made 

 for the respective years. The amounts are partly estimated in the fol- 

 lowing manner: 



The average amount obtained by dividing the total butter by the 

 number of creameries so reporting is multiplied by the total number of 

 churning stations. It has never been possible to get a full and complete 

 report of absolutely all the creameries. In making average mentioned 

 above the amount made by the large centralizing creameries and the 

 number of them is subtracted before the average is attempted, so that 

 there are no unusual or uncertain factors in the figures given. The make 

 of the centralizing creameries is, however, included in the total: 



1897 — 88,900,000 



1898 87,704,214 



1899 , 87,972,470 



1900 84,965,062 



1901 82,706,944 



1902 — 77,885,696 



1903 64,565,970 



1904 . 70,000,000 



1905 82,707,588 



1906 91,202,a54 



1907 -- 91,164,363 



COMPABISONS. 



1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 



1904 1905 1906 1907 



Total No. of creameries and skim sta.'s 



Ownership. 



Individual — -. 



Co-operative 



Stock company 



State property 



954 967 994 960 919 792 



691 655 596 594 



187 



319 



87 



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RAILROAD BUTTER SHIPMENTS. 



The following table shows the number of pounds of butter, net,shipped 

 from each county in the State to points outside the State, which is found 

 by subtracting sixteen per cent of the gross weight as reported by the 

 railroads of the State. This department is under obligations to the 

 freight oflBcials of the different railroads for furnishing us these figures: 



