No. 4.] REPORT OF THE DAIRY BUREAU. 



235 



Renovated Butter (Pounds). 



Year. 



Production. 



Withdrawn Tax 

 paid. 



1903, 

 1904, 

 1905, 

 1906, 

 1907, 

 1908, 

 1909, 

 1910, 

 1911, 



Total, 



54,658,790 

 54,171,183 

 60,029,421 

 53,549,900 

 62,965,613 

 50,479,489 

 47,345,361 

 47,433,575 

 39.292,591 



469,925,923 



54,223,234 

 54,204,478 

 60,171,504 

 53,361,088 

 63,078,504 

 50,411,446 

 47,402,382 

 47,378,446 

 39,352,445 



469,583,527 



BUTTEK. 



The annual statement of the Chamber of Commerce, as 

 will be seen by the appended tables, shows increase in the 

 consumption of butter during 1911, due undoubtedly to the 

 lower wholesale average price of 27.3 cents per pound, the 

 lowest since 1906. 



The following table shows the average quotation for the 

 best fresh creamery butter, in a strictly wholesale way, in 

 the Boston market for the last ten years, as compiled by the 

 Boston Chamber of Commerce : — 



