Il6 CHEESE AND CHEESE-MAKING 



years ago it is impossible to say, but in spite 

 of the enormous increase in production, it is 

 believed, upon the basis of careful estimates, that 

 the consumption per head of the population per 

 day does not exceed a quarter of a pint. In 

 America the milk industry has increased with still 

 more rapid strides, and in the great States of New 

 York and Massachusetts the consumption has 

 been raised by leaps and bounds, until, e.g., the 

 per capita consumption in the city of Boston has 

 reached 1*33 half-pints per day. It is a curious 

 fact that the milk consumption of the oldest city 

 of the New World should be so much greater 

 in fact, nearly three times as great as the con- 

 sumption per head of the inhabitants of the city 

 of Manchester. 



The fact that milk production has been more 

 profitable to the farmer than most of the other 

 branches of his industry, has, of late, induced 

 numbers of tenants to keep dairy cows and 

 produce milk for sale, or manufacture butter or 

 cheese. Increased production has in this way 

 increased competition, with the result that prices 

 have fallen. Hitherto the prices of cheese and 

 butter have been regulated by the imports from 



