No. 4.] REPORT OF DAIRY BUREAU. 177 



Renovated Butteu. 



Tlie violations of the renovated butter Imw in this State 

 have continued to decline, there having been but 33 such viola- 

 tions during the year. The high price of butter has caused 

 more of the goods to be used than was the case in 1908, but 

 it has been sold more carefully. There is one licensed con- 

 cern in this State manufacturing renovated butter. A ma- 

 jority of the goods sold is in print form. 



BuTTEE. 



The Chamber of Commerce figures show a decrease in 

 consumption of butter for the first time since 1900, — the 

 inevitable result of the high cost of living, including the 

 high price of butter. Consumers are obliged to economize ; 

 therefore less butter is used, and to some extent at least this 

 is being made up by the use of oleomargarine, exact figures 

 for the local sale of which are unobtainable. The wholesale 

 price of butter has ruled 2 cents per pound higher than in 

 1908, and nearly 9 cents higher than in 1904. The creamery 

 at Shelburne Falls has passed into the hands of H. P. Hood 

 & Sons, and the Williamsburg and a few other creameries 

 have gone out of business. 



The amount of consumption of butter for 1908 was 

 66,869,455 pounds; that of 1909, 65,939,692 pounds,— 

 a decrease of 929,763 pounds. In 1900 the consumption was 

 but 49,288,306 pounds. Therefore the average increase of 

 consumption has been 1,850,154 pounds per year for the 

 last nine years, — a grand record. 



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 nine years, as compiled by the 

 Boston Chamber of Commerce : — 



