MARKETING OF BUTTER 



441 



Table 61. Per Capita Annual Consumption of Butter in the 

 United States by Years. 



Table 62. Per Capita Annual Consumption of Butter by 



Countries. 



1 Represents consumption of factory butter only. 



2 Estimated. 



8 It is generally understood that consumption of dairy products in Ger- 

 many is large. Imports of butter in 1911 exceeded 120,000,000 pounds, but no 

 records are available to establish per capita consumption. 



4 No record available of total production. Imports in 1913 were 14,000,000 

 pounds and exports 2.000,000 pounds. 



5 Consumption very small. 



6 1900 record suggests less than one pound per capita. This was im- 

 proved to about five pounds in 1918. 



7 Very little butter is consumed except by the foreign population; how- 

 ever, use is increasing and becoming more general. 



8 Butter not used by Chinese except by a small but growing number of 

 wealthier classes. Normal consumption of butter estimated at 2,000,000 

 pounds per annum. 



