7. TABLE III 



Comparative Statistics of the Dairying Industry expressed in Terms of Milk, 

 showing Production, Exports, Imports, and Total and Per Capita 

 Consumption in the Census Years 1901 and 1911 



Census 

 1901 

 Population of Canada 5,371,315 



Lbs. 



Total Production of Milk 6,866,834,000 



Exports of Dairy Products as Milk . 2,514,596,967 



Imports of Dairy Products as Milk 34,886,346 



Total Consumption as Milk 4,387,123,379 



Per Capita Consumption as Milk 816.76 



No. Milch Cows in Canada 2,408,677 



Average pounds Milk per Cow 2,850 



Note — As milk production was not included in the 1901 Census the quantity 

 shown in the 1901 column was arrived at as follows: The total value of all dairy 

 products in 1900 was $66,470,953, which included the manufactured value of cheese 

 and butter made in factories, and the average gross value of the milk supplied to 

 factories was 96.8 cents per hundred lbs. Taking this figure as a basis, the above 

 total value represents a total milk production of 6,866,834,000 lbs. 



8. TABLE IV. 



Value of Different Products in 1910 



Factory Cheese $21,587,124 



Home made Cheese 153,036 



Creamery Butter 15,645,845 



Home Made Butter 39,889,953 



Condensed Milk. 1,813,971 



Milk and Cream consumed and used for Ice Cream . . . 30,250,005 



Total $109,339,934 



9. The average annual yield per cow increased in 10 years from 2,850 pounds 

 to 3,805 pounds. It would have required 3,463,571 cows at the average production 

 of 1900 to have produced the quantity of milk shown in the Census for 1910 — an increase 

 of 1,054,894 instead of the actual increase of 185,502. This increase in yield represents 

 at least $25,000,000 a year for the number of cows milked in 1910, and it is safe to say 

 that the sum would be larger if it were known for 1914. 



The Export Trade 



10. The export of cheese reached the maximum of 233,980,716 pounds in 1904. 

 This high water mark was followed by a steady annual decline until in 1914 the total 

 exports were only 137,601,661 pounds. The figures for the year 1915 show a large 

 and gratifying increase. The total quantity exported in that year amounted to 

 160,659,808 pounds, or an increase of over 16% for the year. 



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