June, 1926] 



CAN WE PRODUCE MORE OF WHAT WE EAT? 



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markets to the south. In many instances the commercial poultryman is 

 getting a 5 cent to 7 cent per dozen premium above local markets by 

 shipping to a high-class special market. It is probable that the New 

 Hampshire producers are supplying the demand for high quality fresh 

 eggs, and that the surplus is shipped out rather than to accept a low price 

 in competition with the western and storage products. 



BUTTER 



About 94 per cent of the butter purchased was imported, as shown in 

 Table XV. In all districts the local farmers furnish but a small part of 

 the butter used. In the Merrimack Valley only 3 per cent of the pur- 

 chases were from the farmers. Whole milk has paid so much better that 

 the farmer who is favorably situated markets his dair}'- products as milk 

 or cream. The butter shipped in represents the annual production of 

 about 25,000 average cows. 



Table XV — Butter — purchases by retail stores, hotels and camps from local farmers and from others 



District 



1. Upper Coos 



2. White Mt 



3. Lake Region 



4. Sullivan 



5. Cheshire 



6. Merrimack Valley 



7. Coast 



Total 



Butter (pounds) 



From farmers 



43,230 

 71,524 

 81,997 

 109,015 

 26,545 

 93,455 

 15.872 



441,638 



From others 



408,130 

 396,255 

 698.708 

 475.812 

 143,555 

 3,747,655 

 760,563 



6,630,678 



WHITE MOUNTAIN HOTEL DISTRICT 



Most of the summer hotels of New Hampshire are grouped in three 

 distinct areas: White Mountains, Lake Sunapee, and the beaches. The 

 beach hotels are pretty well supplied by local growers with products 

 in season. The Sunapee Lake hotel region and the White Mountain 

 hotels are similar as to demand and are not so well provided. 



The hotels in the White Mountains may be divided into groups geo- 

 graphically: those in northern Carroll county, those in the Pemigewasset 

 Valley and those in the Sugar Hill, Bethlehem, Whitefield and Crawford 

 Notch area. The last of these are by far the largest group, and the de- 

 mand here will be considered in some detail, under the White Mountain 

 Hotel district.* 



Tourists and summer guests begin coming to hotels in the White Moun- 

 tains during the early part of June. This transient population increases 

 rapidly until the latter part of August and then declines very abruptly, 

 until by the middle of September practically all the guests are gone and 

 the hotels closed. 



* The White Mountain hotels in the Bethlehem-Crawford Notch area, represent 70 per 

 cent, the Pemigewasset Valley hotels 10 per cent, and northern Carroll county 20 per 

 cent of the total capacity of all White Mountain hotels. The demand in each case is 

 similar, but purchases are proportionately smaller in the last two districts. 



