212 



DAIRY FARMING 



period. There is no reason to suppose that any other state 

 will be a close competitor with Wisconsin in cheese production. 



TABLE 25. POUNDS BUTTER AND CHEESE MADE ON FARMS 

 AND IN FACTORIES 1 



These declines in New York do not mean that the dairy 

 business has declined. They merely show that the readily 



CHEESE FACTORIES 

 1914 



FIG. 72. Location of cheese factories in the United States. 2 



transportable dairy products are coming from regions of 

 cheaper feed. At the same time that these decreases have 



1 Thirteenth Census, Vol. V, p. 489. 



2 U. S. Dept. Agr., Yearbook, 1915, p. 397. 



