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New York has no particular prominence. It is 

 twenty-second in the production of butter and fifth 

 in cheese. This illustrates the demand b}- the large 

 cities for raw milk which prevents its use for man- 

 ufacturing purposes. (See chapter on manufac- 

 tures.) 



ANIMAL HUSBAXDEY AND SOIL FERTILITY 



In addition to the value of animals and animal 

 products as human food and equipment and their 

 use as conservators of otherwise waste human food ma- 

 terial, still another viewpoint is frequently advanced 

 in favor of live-stock husbandry. Animals produce 

 manure as a bv-product and in every intensively 

 farmed region this is assigned high value to maintain 

 and improve the productive capacity of the soil. 



The three and a quarter million animal units in the 

 State will produce manure at tlie rate of approxi- 

 mately 38,000,000 gross tons, or 7,500,000 tons of dry 

 matter in manure a year. The distribution of this 

 material among the different animals is about as given 



3,292,000 37,962,000 7,497,000 



