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Yearbook of the Department of AgHculture, 1921. 



Fig. 86. — Butter made on farms in 1919 constituted 43 per cent of the total pro- 

 duction of 1,646,171,874 pounds reported by the census. The areas of densest produc- 

 tion of farm butter, 

 Pennsylvania to 



ern Tennessee; t^v, ^t^i^v i ^^^^ „.,.. .. , .-^ ■■■ — ^-- ^ - , 



nessee ; and the northeastern portion of Texas. It is notahle how little Dutter is 

 made on farms in Wisconsin and Minnesota, where the factory «.v*^f<'i» i^ well tl^^'^'^oP,^^- 

 Over half of the farms in the United States made butter in 1919 but less than one- 

 third of the butter made was sold. Most of this farm butter sold was consumed in 

 the locality where it was produced. 



(46,171,874 pounds reported by the census. The areas or oensesr piouuc- 

 3utter, it will be noted, are the Piedmont Plateau, extending from eastern 

 to Alabama ; the Tennessee River Valley of northern Alabama and ^st- 

 ! ; the upper Ohio River basin ; the western portion of Kentucky and ien- 



