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products are better provided for locally,* where moved in 

 quantity, and butter can be carried two thousand miles or 

 more, and delivered in good condition, at considerably less 

 than one cent a pound. 



^Meantime, a marked change has taken place in the condi- 

 tion of our domestic markets and in the movement of dairy 

 j)roducts in this country. Recent personal examinations 

 have shown me that several sections, recently depending 

 upon being supplied from a distance, are now making most 

 of the butter and cheese they use, all of it at times, and 

 sometimes more or less to S[)are, The Pacific States, so 

 lately large buyers from the east, have their dairj^ com- 

 missioners and State dairymen's associations, with numer- 

 ous creameries and cheese factories, and not only buy little 

 or no butter for themselves, but are shii)ping largely to the 

 mountain States on the east, and seeking markets north, 

 south and west, reached by water transportation on the 

 Pacific. Not quite cheese enough is made in that region 

 for the home demand, l)ut the output is fast increasing. 

 Utah supplies herself. Colorado does the same to a large 

 degree, and sends supplies to neighbors north and south. 

 Kansas, Nebraska and the two Dakotas have active dairy 

 associations, and are producing more butter than they can 

 use. Minnesota is becoming a gre.at dairy State. At such 

 points as St. Paul, Omaha and Kansas City, where a few 

 years ago dairy products were constantly moving westward 

 in large quantities, a surplus is now moving to the east. In 

 most of the southern States creameries are being established, 

 and at numerous points the local supply of butter, although 

 small, is found sufiicient. Cheese is not yet made in that 

 region to any extent, but it is worthy of note, as indicating 

 future possibilities, that a *gold medal was awarded at the 

 Atlanta exposition to cheese made in South Carolina, and 

 some of it kept there a year or more, which good judges 

 pronounced of the very highest quality. 



As a result of these changed conditions, butter is com- 

 ing to our large eastern markets in increasing quantities. 

 Whether it be the result of over-production or under-con- 

 sumption, we need not stop to consider. The fact remains 

 that the stocks of stored butter in Chicaao and at Atlantic 



