No. 4.] REPORT OK THE DAIRY BUREAU. 



233 



Renovated Butter (Pounds). 



Year. 



1903. 

 1904, 

 1905, 

 1900. 

 1907, 

 190S, 

 1900. 

 1910, 



Total, 



Butter. 



The annual statement of the Chamber of Commerce, as 

 will be seen by appended tables, shows further decrease in 

 the consumption of butter during 1910. This is undoubt- 

 edly due, in a large measure, to the high price, wholesale 

 average, of 30.2 cents per pound, the highest figure reached 

 in many years. 



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 : — 



