HISTORICAL. 



By the r^nsus of 1870, we had 8,980,832 cows and pro- 

 pucod 514,090,088 ponnds of butter, and 162,927,382 pounds 

 of cheese a total of (5 7 7, 020, 065 pounds of product and 

 this notwithstanding the war of the rebellion came in 

 this decade. 



By the census of 1330, \vc !rid 12,443,120 cows, and 

 produced 803,662,071 pounds of butter, and 243,157,850 

 pounds of cheese M total of 1,049,819,921 pounds of 

 product. 



GROWTH IN THIRTY YEARS. 



This is an increase in annual product of 630,948,622 

 pounds in thirty years, or 212,057,523 pounds more than 

 double the amount, in 1880, that was manufactured in 

 1850. History records no parallel to this anywhere on 

 the face of the globe. 



Let us put some of these figures into tabular form. 

 We had in 



Cows Inhabitants 



1880 12,443,120 to 50,155,783 



1850 6,385,094 to 23,191,876 



Increase in 80 years 6,058,026 26,963,907 



We did not quite double the number of cows, but con- 

 siderably more than doubled the population. The num- 

 ber of inhabitants was, in 



1850 3.63 per cow 



1880... 4.03 



The increase in 30 years is .40 inhabitant to each cow. 

 That is to say, the population, as compared with the 

 number of cows, was .40 larger in 1880 than it was in 1850. 



