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opened the way for export trade and manufacture of 

 by-products which modern requirements of the dairy 

 interest demand. 



The decade in which tendencies in these directions 

 became discernible, 1880 to 1890, did not see these 

 attainments realized. The following decade was 

 also a transition period not only in the growth of 

 the tendencies which have been noted, but in the 

 unfolding of others, mainly in the line of commercial 

 problems to be solved, State enactment of promotive 

 and protective laws to be secured and agencies for 

 dairy education and research to be provided. All 

 these were realized by organization. It is not neces- 

 sary to describe the facilities now provided and the 

 methods employed in the practice of dairy husbandry 

 and the- processes of dairy manufacture in California, 

 because they are the same as in other dairy states 

 and countries, with such minor modifications and 

 adjustments as local climatic conditions make desir- 

 able. It is, however, pertinent briefly to present 

 results which are a measure of attainment and a 

 suggestion of meeting requirements essential to 

 it. 



The creditable volume and value of current dairy 

 production in California and the interesting diversity 

 of it are set forth officially in Appendix I. Geo- 

 graphical distribution is strikingly shown by compil- 

 ing the 1920 products of the counties which produced 

 more than two million pounds of butter and indicat- 

 ing in connection with each its situation in the 

 regions outlined in Chapter I, viz. : 



