Jane, 1941] 



Local Structure of Milk Prices 



Table II. Total Production of Milk on New Hampshire Farm in Millions 



OF Pounds ^ 



Year 



Production 



Year 



Production 



1935 378 



36 372 



2>7 355 



38 355 



39 354= 



Source — - Yearbooks of Agriculture 



1 Excluding milk spilled or wasted on farms and milk sucked by calves. 



^ Preliminary. 



Table III. Milk Production in Million Gallons in New Hampshire, 1889-1934 



Year 



Production 



Year 



Production 



1924 

 1929 

 1934 



38.P 



40.7 



42.9 



Source — U. S. Census Reports 



' Includes estimates for incomplete reports. 



shed then embraced much the same area as it does now, the most impor- 

 tant difference being that no milk was received from the Colebrook area, 

 now a source of heavy shipments. It was not until some ten years later 

 that the Boston milkshed had extended to the extreme north of New 

 Hampshire. 



Shipments outside the state comprise less than half the milk produced 

 in New Hampshire at the present time.^ Only a part of the out-of-state 

 shipments go to Boston. The quantities of New Hampshire milk going 

 into different products and markets at various times in the past are not 

 known accurately. One thing certain, however, is that the fluid milk con- 

 sumed by residents of the state is now, and always has been, supplied 

 almost entirely by New Hampshire farms. 



Census data presented in Table IV and figure 2 show the trend in 

 utilization of New fiampshire milk. In 1849, except for fluid milk and 

 cream sold locally, dairy butter and dairy cheese were the commercial 

 outlets of prime importance. The dairy cheese industry declined rapidly 

 until 1899 when only slightly more than 3 per cent of the 1849 quantity 

 was reported. Dairy butter production moved irregularly until it reached 

 a peak in 1889, after which it began a decline which has been uninter- 

 rupted ever since. Creamery production of both butter and cheese became 

 important in the last two decades of the 19th century, rising to a peak 

 about 1890,^ and then after a brief period of stability, began to decline 

 until at the present time negligible quantities of creamery butter and 

 cheese are produced in New Hampshire. 



1 MacLeod, Alan, "The Milksheds of New Hampshire," N. H. Agri. Expt. Sta., Bui. 293, 1937. 



- Davis, L. M., "A survey of the Dairy Marketing Conditions and Methods in New Hampshire," 

 N. H. Agri. Ext. Bui. 8, 1917. 



