THE NEW EARTH 



of the dairy interests of the United States, 

 now that they are assuming in the broader 

 field of the New Earth the position to which 

 they are entitled, is seen in the fact that, by 

 the last census, there were over eighteen mil- 

 lions of dairy cows, ninety-four and six-tenths 

 per cent of which were on farms or elsewhere 

 enclosed. 



Over seven billion gallons of milk were pro- 

 duced in the census year 1 900, an average per 

 year of four hundred and twenty-four gallons 

 per cow. Somewhat over fifty per cent of all 

 the milk produced came from the states of the 

 north central division, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, 

 Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, North 

 and South Dakota, Missouri, Kansas and Ne- 

 braska. During the same year nearly one billion, 

 five hundred millions of pounds of butter were 

 made, together with almost three hundred 

 million pounds of cheese. It gives one an 

 altogether enlarged view of the dairy industry 

 of the United States under this new order of 

 things, to note, in addition to all this, the fact 

 that the value of the dairy interests of the 

 United States is now considerably more than 

 two billions of dollars, on which there is an 



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