28 HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT* 



output of condensed milk and in the erection of many new and 

 large factories within the short span of the war. 



The tremendous increase in the volume of condensed milk 

 manufactured in this country in 1919 is due in part also to the 

 rapidly growing consumption of ice cream and soft beverages 

 of which ice cream is a constituent, as the result of national 

 prohibition. Conservative estimates place the increase of con- 

 densed bulk milk supplied to ice cream factories at 15 to 20 per 

 cent over previous years. 



In 1899, there were in operation in this country about fifty 

 factories manufacturing condensed milk, distributed over four- 

 teen different states, New York and Illinois leading the list by 

 over 50 per cent. In 1904, the Government estimated the total 

 number of condenseries in operation at eighty-seven. In 1914, 

 there were in the United States over two hundred milk condens- 

 ing factories, distributed over twenty-three different states. And 

 in 1918 Government statistics place the total number of con- 

 denseries at 322, distributed over 30 different states as shown 

 on the following table : 



Distribution of Milk Condensing Factories in United States 1 



in 1920. 



Number of Number of 



States Factories States Factories 



Alabama 1 Missouri 3 



Arizona 3 Nebraska 2 



California 8 New Hampshire 1 



Colorado 5 New Jersey 5 



Florida 1 New York 68 



Idaho 2 North Dakota 1 



Illinois 31 Ohio 30 



Indiana 11 Oregon . . . 5 



Iowa 2 Pennsylvania 37 



Kansas 5 Rhode Island 1 ' 



Maine 1 Utah 3 



Maryland 3 Vermont 5 



Massachusetts 2 Virginia 1 



Michigan 24 Washington 19 



Minnesota 2 Wisconsin 40 



Total 30 ^322 



1 Potts, R. C., U. S. Bureau of Markets, 1920. 



