History AND DEVELOPMEN' 27 
In this country, as well as in Canada, Furope, Australia and 
New Zealand, the condensed milk industry grew rapidly. Every 
succeeding decade marked the organization of new companies 
and the erection of new factories until today, there are milk con- 
densing factories in nearly every civilized country within the 
dairy belt. 
The above figures may serve to emphasize the rapid growth 
which the condensed milk industry in the United States has 
enjoyed during the last decade, The total output of condensed 
milk in 1919, both sweetened and unsweetened, but not includ- 
ing “filled” condensed milk such as condensed goods modified 
with vegetable fats, nor condensed buttermilk and uncondensed 
sterilized canned milk, was 1,977, 454.805 pounds, at an estimated 
value of approximately S2G0,0C0,000, Calculating the ratio of 
concentration at 2.5 to 1, this output represents the utilization 
of approximately 4,044,000,C60 pounds of fluid milk. In 1917 
when the total output of condensed mill was 975,000,009 pounds, 
representing the utilization of about ee, 00,000 pounds of 
fHuid milk, the total production of milk in the United States 
was estimated at about 84,611.350,000 pounds of which 2.9 per 
cent were manufactured into condensed milk. Reliable figures 
are not as yet available of the total production of milk in the 
United States for the vear 1919. Tt is estimated however, to be 
about %0,0C0,000,000 pounds. On the basis of the above esti- 
mate, about 54 per cent of the total mill produced in the 
United States during the vear 191° was maniactured in to con- 
densed milk. 
A new and unprecedented impetus was viven the condensed 
milk industry in America by the advent of the \World War. The 
concentration of the produet, its wholesomeness and high food 
value, the serviceableness of its package and its great keeping 
quality rendered it indispensable as a food for the army and navy. 
as well as for the civilian population of the warring nations in 
its dire need for food. In this great crisis in which the food 
supply of the nations of the earth was playing a most important 
role, condensed milk has proved its worth and the demand for 
this commodity has increased to tremendous proportions. This 
demand has been readily responded to by the industry on the 
American continent and has resulted in a vast increase of the 
