340 



Milk and Its Products 



Value of principal farm products of the United States 



a "Other products" include barley, buckwheat, flax fiber, flaxseed, hemp, 

 hops, Irish potatoes, leaf tobacco, maple sirup, maple sugar, oats, rice, rye, 

 sorghum molasses, sweet potatoes, and wool. 



But it is not so much in the amount of dairy 

 product manufactured as in the way the business is 

 done that the dairy industry shows its most remarka- 

 ble advances. Up to 1850 the whole dairy output 

 was produced, manufactured, and marketed from in- 

 dividual farms. Since then the introduction and 

 wonderful growth of associated dairying, or the fac- 

 tory system, has taken place, and this period has 

 also witnessed the introduction of so many and so 

 varied machines and utensils that the dairy practice 

 of forty or even twenty years ago is entirely rev- 

 olutionized in the methods of to-day. But while 

 associated dairying has made rapid strides, both in 

 butter and cheese making, it is only in cheese 

 making that the factory system can be said to have 

 at all supplanted private dairying. In 1890 only 

 a little more than 7 per cent of all the cheese 

 produced was made outside of factories; while in the 



