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REPORT OF THE BUKEAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY. 



States in which, more than 50 per cent, of all the cattle are milch 

 cows: 



The States included in the above table fall quite naturally into 

 three groups, so far as their dairy industry is concerned. 



The first, comprising the States down to and including Delaware, 

 is made up entirely of Eastern States. Many of them are quite small 

 in area, and the surface in all is more or less broken and hilly. The 

 live-stock industry is almost wholly devoted to dairying, and as a 

 consequence of the total number a very large proportion of the cattle 

 are cows. An important part of the dairying in this group is the 

 furnishing of milk for immediate consumption to the numerous large 

 cities. Most of the larger condensed-milk factories are also in this 

 region. Of the remaining milk, about equal portions, as far as may 

 be estimated, are made into butter and cheese. 



The second group is made up of the States of Wisconsin, Ohio, 

 Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Missouri. They are States of large size, 

 with extensive areas of level or nearly level prairie land, in which 

 the grasses grow, naturally, abundantly and luxuriantly. They are 

 also extremely well adapted to the growth of Indian corn, and for 

 the most part are situated in what is known as the " great central 

 corn belt/' and are therefore great beef -producing States, with dairy- 

 ing as a very important though still secondary part of the cattle in- 

 dustry. Of the dairy products of this region butter undoubtedly 

 leads, though large quantities of cheese are made in some localities, 

 notably Wisconsin, and' several large cities claim a large amount of 

 milk for immediate consumption. 



The last two States of the list, as has been said before, are not dis- 

 tinctively dairy States, but they are of large size, and immense herds 

 of cattle run at large on their extensive grassy plains, which accounts 

 for the large number of cows credited to them. However, as the 

 country becomes better settled, the dairy industry extends further 

 west and southwest, and in all probability they and several other of 

 the Western States may be classed among the dairy States at no very 

 distant day. 



PRODUCTION AND EXPORT OF DAIRY PRODUCTS. 



In the short time allotted for the preparation of this paper it has 

 been impossible to gather complete recent statistics of the amount of 



