THE MILK SUPPLY OF MASSACHUSETTS 



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Table 3. — Feed Units Used per Hundredweight of Milk Produced. 



Distinguisiiing between nonie-grown and shipped-in 

 feed for each state and all New England. 



It would be worth while at some later date to revise these estimates 

 after securing a greater range of reports than the sample data obtained 

 for other purposes by the New England Milk Producers Association. 



Comparisons zvith Other Dairi/ Countries 



The foregoing conclusions take on greater meaning through comparison 

 with the situation in the animal industries of other countries having highly 

 developed dairying. 



The United Kingdom has developed an intensive dairy industry which de- 

 pends partially upon imported feedstuffs. Sir Thomas Middleton estimates 

 that at the outbreak of the war 340 million out of a total of 1,800 million 

 gallons of milk produced were based upon concentrated feeding stuffs. Of 

 these concentrates approximately 32 per cent were home grown and 68 

 per cent of foreign origin. 2 Accordingly, about 13 per cent of the British 

 milk supply was based upon imported feeding stuffs. 



A committee of Germany's leading scientists, under the chairmanship 

 of Professor Paul Eltzbacher, estimated that just before the war one-half 



2 Middleton, T. II. Food Production in War. pp. 36, 74. 



