PRODUCTION' AND CONSUMPTION OF DAIRY PRODUCTS. 19 



QUANTITY OF MILK CONSUMED IN CITIES. 



An inquiry was addressed to the boards of health in all the cities 

 of 2,500 inhabitants or over, asking the average daily receipts of 

 milk in January, April, July, and October. Replies to this inquiry 

 indicates that the average per capita consumption was 28 gallons, 

 or 112 quarts per year; hence t^je average person in a city consumed 

 less than one-third of a quart of milk per day. The average farm 

 consumption was 288 quarts in the year. If the average per capita 

 yearly consiunption is multiphed by the total city population, it 

 shows that cities require 1,000,000,000 gallons per year. Another 

 interesting result shown by these returns was that the consumption 

 was shghtly higher in cities of 25,000 inhabitants or over than in 

 smaller cities. 



The returns regarding the variation in milk consumption by months 

 were not entirely satisfactory, but seem to indicate that the receipts 

 at the large cities fluctuate less than those of the smaller ones. The 

 fluctuations were generally less than 10 per cent. 



MILK CONSUMPTION IN SMALL TOWNS. 



Since no data are available to show the consumption in small cities 

 or villages, or on farms not having dairy cows, the total consumption 

 can not be accurately estimated. If the average per capita consump- 

 tion of milk in the cities of 2,500 or over is applied to the population 

 not on dairy farms, but considered as rural, it would require 600,000,000 

 gallons per year. If this is added to the quantity of milk received 

 by the butter and cheese factories and condenseries, the quantity 

 required to produce butter and cheese on farms, the quantity used 

 for consumption raw upon farms, and the quantity consumed by 

 cities of 2,500 or over, it would approximate 9,000,000,000 gallons. 

 Of course a large quantity of milk is used for feeding calves in addi- 

 tion. If this total consumption is divided by the total number of 

 dairy cows, whether on farms or not, an average annual production 

 would be obtained of over 400 gallons per cow. The average pro- 

 duction, according to the census of 1010, for those cows on farms 

 for which milk production was reported was only 362. 



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