REPORT OF THE DAIRY BUREAU. 



Massachusetts stands high among the States of the Union 

 as a manufacturing State. Many of her towns and cities 

 have a national reputation as manufacturing centres for 

 various products, such as cotton cloth, boots and shoes, 

 spectacles, watches, whips, etc. The census for 1895, just 

 published, shows that the value of the manufacturing plants 

 in the State aggregates $325,000,000, cotton manufacturing 

 leading, with $92,000,000 invested ; the value of the agri- 

 cultural property of the State is $220,000,000. So that, 

 although Massachusetts is pre-eminently a manufacturing 

 State, and as such is prominent among the States, it is two- 

 thirds as much of an agricultural State as it is a manufactur- 

 ing State, so far as investment in real estate, machinery, 

 buildings, water power, etc., are concerned. 



Of the agricultural products of the State, dairying leads. 

 The census for 1895 gives the value of the dairy products of 

 the State as follows : — 



Butter, , . . $1,506,638 



Cheese, 11,661 



Cream, 1,011,604 



Milk, 13,704,146 



$16,234,049 



Hay and fodder are second ; but, as most of the hay and 

 fodder grown in the State is fed to dairy animals, it is fair 

 to add quite a proportion of the $12,000,000 value of hay 

 and fodder to the above $16,000,000. In the cream fur- 

 nished to creameries and in other ways there is a possible 

 duplication of values, as the census enumerates each sepa- 

 rate article in every step of manufacturing, because fre- 

 quently the manufactured product of one industry is the raw 

 material of another. But, making a reasonable deduction 

 for duplications, and then adding a proper proportion of 



