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THE BUTTER INDUSTRY IN UNITED STATES 



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is an important factor in selling the product. This is one 

 reason why the cheese industry has become largely cen- 

 tered in New York and Wisconsin. These states have been 

 early in the field of cheese production and have used ag- 

 gressive methods in placing the product on the market. 

 The expert skill in cheese manufacture that has developed 

 among the people of these states is another reason why this 

 industry has become more centered than the manufacture 

 of butter. Other states were under a much greater strain 

 than New York and Wisconsin in meeting the competition 

 of foreign countries which have imported large quantities 

 during the last decade. It may be expected therefore that 

 the tendency toward shifting will be less marked in the 

 cheese industry than in the butter industry. Nevertheless 

 the industry is moving westward as is shown by a state- 

 ment of the amounts of cheese produced in the leading dairy 

 states from 1850 to 19 10. 



TABLE IX 



The Amount of Cheese Produced in the Largest Dairy States 



from 1850 to 1910 



(000 omitted) 



State 



1910 



1900 



1890 



Pounds Pounds Pounds Pounds 



£880 1870 



Wisconsin 148,906 



New York 105,584 



Michigan | 13,673 



Pennsylvania ...j 12,676 



Ohio : 12,473 



Illinois ,. 4,881 



Oregon 4)388 



California 4,345 



79>384 

 130,010 



io,753 

 11,124 



I9.323 



9.378 



1,662 



6,926 



54,614 



124,086 



5.370 



5.457 



22,254 



10,348 



496 



4,962 



19,535 

 129,163 



3.953 

 8,966 



32,531 



21,253 



299 



3,720 



Pounds 

 3,288 



100,776 

 2,321 



2,792 



24,153 



5.734 



119 



3.395 



(From the Statistical Abstract of the United States). 



Table no. 9 shows that New York was the largest cheese- 

 producing state from 1850 to 1900. The production in 



