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THE BUTTER INDUSTRY IN UNITED STATES 



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portation facilities until only a small fraction will continue 

 under the domestic system. The manufacture of butter 

 remained exclusively a domestic industry long after other 

 industries had felt the effects of the Industrial Revolution. 

 As is well known, the Industrial Revolution was proceed- 

 ing most actively from 1760 to 1830, the time during 

 which the great inventions of spinning and weaving ma- 

 chinery, the steam engine, the lock canal, the railroad, etc., 

 truly revolutionized the methods of manufacture in many 



TABLE I 



The Amount of Butter Produced in the United States on the Farm 

 and in the Factory in 1899 and 1909 



System 



Butter 



Factory product 

 Farm product . . 



Cheese 



Factory product 

 Farm product . • 



1909 



Pounds 

 1,619,415,263 

 624,764,653 

 994,650,610 



320,532,181 



311,126,317 



9,405,864 



1899 



Pounds 

 1,491,752,602 

 420,126,546 

 1,071,626,056 



298,344,642 



281,972,324 



16,372,318 



Per cent of Total 



1909 1899 



100 

 38.6 

 61.4 



100 

 97.1 

 2.9 



100 

 28.2 

 71.8 



100 

 94-5 

 5-5 



(From the 12th Census, vol. 9,) 



industries. During this time some industries were very 

 rapidly transferred from the home to the factory. The 

 most rapid change came in the clothing industry. During 

 this marvelous industrial development the enterpriser and 

 inventor paid but little attention to the dairy industry. 

 Many new kinds of churns were invented, but these could 

 not change fundamentally the character of the industry. 

 This was because there were inherent difficulties in the in- 

 dustry that checked its development. The preservation of 



