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PROFITABLE DAIRYING 



industry, it is only necessary to call attention 

 to the census reports of the United States, which 

 show but five creameries and cheese " factories 

 within its domains in the year 1860. This num- 

 ber increased very slowly for twenty or thirty 



years, but very rapidly 

 after 1890, until we now 

 have, according to the 

 census of 1910, the lat- 

 est data available, 6,235 

 creameries and 3,846 

 cheese factories scattered 

 throughout the United 

 States. 



It may be argued from 

 this that the dairy indus- 

 try will soon be overdone. 

 The following table will 

 be of interest to those 

 studying this question: 



Fig. 1. Dr. Babcock oper- 

 ating the original Babcock 

 tester. 



Population of the U. S. (Census 1800)— 62,622,256. 

 Population of the U. S. (Census 1010)— 01,072,266. 



Increase in Population 46.7% 



Production of Butter in the U. S. (Census 



1800) 1,205,508,384 lbs. 



Production of Butter in the U. S. (Census 



1010) 1,610,415,263 " 



Increase in Amount of Butter Produced. . . 34.3% 



Production of Cheese in the U. S. (Census 



1800) 256,761,888 lbs. 



Production of Cheese in the U. S. (Census 



1010) 320,532,181 " 



Increase in Amount of Cheese Produced. . . 24.8% 



