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BULLETIN 177, V. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTUEE. 



BUTTER CONSUMPTION ON FARMS. 



Returns from this inquiry also indicate that the average person 

 on the farm consumed a pound of butter every 10 days, or that the 

 average farm family consumed over a half pound per day. If this 

 average per family for the year be multiphed by the total number 

 of farms reporting butter production, it would equal nearly 900,- 

 000,000 pounds. An additional question was asked of those corre- 

 spondents who made butter, namely, ''How many quarts of milk 

 does it require to make a pound of butter?" The average for the 

 United States was 9.6 quarts; varying from 8.1 for the West South 

 Central States to 10.7 for the West North Central. If the total sales 

 of butter by farmers is added to the total home consumption as 

 obtained above, and the result multiphed by the average number 

 of quarts of milk necessary to produce a pound of butter, it shows 

 that farmers use at home, for butter, over 12,000,000,000 quarts of 

 milk annually, or over 40 per cent more than was reported by butter 

 and cheese factories and condenseries to the Thirteenth Census. 



■ Table 11. — Butter consumption on farms. 





Average 

 number of 



members 



per 

 household. 



Average butter con- 

 sumed. 



Farms 

 reporting 

 butter pro- 

 duction. 



Estimated 

 total con- 

 sumption on 

 farms. 



Geograpliic division. 



Per house- 

 hold 

 per year. 



Per capita 

 per year. 



New England 



5.3 

 4.6 

 4.7 

 5.4 

 5.3 

 5.5 

 5.9 

 6.2 

 5.0 



Pounds. 

 160 

 182 

 176 

 210 

 181 

 190 

 214 

 222 

 158 



Pounds. 

 30 

 40 

 38 

 39 

 34 

 35 

 36 

 36 

 32 



Number. 

 94,858 

 267, 085 

 802,909 

 841,084 

 772,972 

 820, 015 

 705,549 

 101,777 

 109,036 



Pounds. 

 15,177,280 





48, 609, 470 



East North Central .. 



141,311,984 

 176,627,640 

 139,907,932 

 155, 802, 850 



W^st North Central 



South Atlantic 



East South Central 



West South Central 



150, 987, 486 





22,594,494 



Pacific 



17,227,688 





Total, United States 



5.3 



192 



36 



4,515,285 



868,246,824 





Table 12. — Consumption of milk in cities. 





Cities of 25,000 and over. 



Cities of 2,500 and over. 



Geographic division. 



Yearly 

 per capita 



con- 

 sumption. 



Estimated 

 total con- 

 sumption. 



Yearly 

 per capita 

 consump- 

 tion. 



Estimated 

 total con- 

 sumption. 



New England 



Gallons. 

 35. 709 

 33.854 

 29.379 

 20. 030 

 21.428 

 18.656 

 17.529 

 24.974 

 31.781 



Gallons. 

 115,874,669 

 362,598,650 

 185,551,154 

 47,623,108 

 40,379,095 

 16,554,719 

 17, 106, 358 

 11,097,846 

 54,116,115 



Gallons. 

 35. 794 

 33.270 

 25. 397 

 20.888 

 20. 677 

 18.690 

 17.519 

 22.369 

 31.151 



. Gallons. 

 195, 268, 619 



Middle Atlantic 



456,576,620 



East North Central 



244,249,832 



West North Central 



80,914,180 

 63,936,448 



South Atlantic 



East South Central 



29,264,917 

 34, 292, 672 



West South Central 





21, 194, 874 



Pacific 



74,211,931 







Total, United States 



29.810 



850,901,714 



28. 151 



1, 199, 910, 093 







