452 



Of this movemeut of tlie past year, the receipts of Xew York amoaat 

 ■to 724,615 bales; those of New Orleans, 1,079,129. 



The interior and local movemeut, in detail, is thus given : 



The total movement and home consumption of our cotton for seven- 

 teen years past is thus given on the same authority : 



CO-OPERATIVE DAIRIES IN SWEDEN.' 



The following statement of the extension of the distinctively Ameri- 

 can idea of associated effort in dairying, is from the German of E. de 

 Salviate, secretary of the state board of agriculture of Prussia, trans- 

 lated for the Department of Agriculture by A. W. Augerer, of the Bureau 

 of Statistics of the Treasury Department : 



The success gained by tlie cheese-associations in Switzerland, and by a few similar 

 establishments in Southwestern Germany, as well as by farming associations in North. 

 America, has led to the formation of milk-associations in England, especially in Derby. 

 They have demonstrated that, under certain conditions, the manufacture from milk on 

 a large scale, extended over a considerable area, must have many advantages over indi- 

 vidual enterprise. In Sweden, also, these associations have been formed, and the first 

 report of the dairy stock association of Stockholm coincides with the first annual ac- 

 count of the milk association in Derby. 



The advantages claimed by the committee of the milk association are in part the 



