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History AND DevELopMEN’ 
output of condensed milk and in the erection of many new and 
large factories within the short span of the war. 
The tremendous increase in the volume of condensed milk 
manufactured in this country in 1919 is due in part also to the 
rapidly growing consumption of ice cream and soft beverages 
of which ice cream is a constituent, as the result of national 
prohibition. Conservative estimates place the increase of con- 
densed bulk milk supplied to ice cream factories at 15 to 20 per 
cent over previous years. 
In 1899, there were in operation in this country about fifty 
factories manufacturing condensed milk, distributed over four- 
teen different states, New York and Illinois leading the list by 
over 50 per cent. In 1904, the Government estimated the total 
number of condenseries in operation at eighty-seven. In 1914, 
there were in the United States over two hundred milk condens- 
ing factories, distributed over twenty-three different states. And 
in 1918 Government statistics place the total number of con- 
denseries at 322, distributed over 30 different states as shown 
ou the following table: 
Distribution of Milk Condensing Factories in United States* 
in 1920. 
Number of Number of 
States Factories States Factories 
Alaipaaiias nian et eae: 1 INESSOUTH 2. ata eae et 3 
INTIDOUM AS Sean eh eek Gales 3 INebraslat ovate caiecucA 2 
Calitotmla ss cscs. eso 8 New Hampshire ........ 1 
COMO OG pane Sunk 3s soe aeaston a ING Wr J CESEN renee aye tae 5 
FUG falc as oy erent ean ate | New York ...... Chen 68 
ie Fe io ape meen carter i ek tenant ee 2 North Dakota ........., 1 
PTO acy neecian case eer we 31 CUM GP ce nen aan, oad eres 30 
Tin vaiials 5 acces toes 1] OREO OMe rca mono cee . 5 
RG Widsets tare den ees 2 Pennsylvania .....0.34- 37 
IeAuISaS ke ones a ee 5 Rhodevisland: i .cccecaee 71 
Mitt Gite ccin tne easler al eta ehon ee 1 (itauhipedeteetccen sxnteaes enor: 3 
Maryland: to40.esee0s%c 3 MIGHT OIIED pean as cee 5 
Massachusetts .......... 2 NG Out asteee tact, meee a 1 
MCh Oat: 3 2055.55 tee 2 cee 24 Washington: .ccececeaes 19 
Minnesota sees oe ee ks 2 WaSCONS Ills 2 oe acter 40 
pare Total sO MycnGapow nea 322 
1 Potts, R. C., U. S. Bureau of Markets, 1920. 
