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bought 4,500,000 pounds of New York cheese. St. 

 Louis is also a heavy importer from the East, and the 

 supply of pure milk in that city is not only insufficient 

 but the quality is very inferior. A few years ago milk 

 sold in Mobile, Alabama, at 86 cents per gallon. Her- 

 kimer County sent out 17,000,000 pounds of cheese in 

 one year, and 300,000 pounds of butter, worth together 

 $4,500,000. St. Albans, Vermont, shipped 1,000,000 

 pounds of cheese and 2,750,000 pounds of butter, worth 

 in market $1,200,000. Wellington, Ohio, shipped 

 4,000,000 pounds of cheese in one year to New York, 

 worth $1,000,000. The country around Elgin, Illinois, 

 produced in a single year 1,300,000 pounds of cheese, 

 1,600,000 quarts of milk, for the Chicago market, and 

 200,000 pounds of butter, the joint value of these pro- 

 ducts being $450,000. One hundred cheese-factories 

 in New York, to which 500,000 cows were attached, 

 produced as follows : 



Value of milk from each cow $65.50 



'< calf " " 10.00 



Total per annum ...... $75.50 



Deduct for manufacturing into cheese per each cow . 9.00 



Average net per cow per annum ..... $66.50 



It must be remembered, however, that in the States 

 the cost of keeping a cow over winter is $20, which 

 must be deducted from her annual yield. In the "West 

 this cost is wiped out, and hence 33 per cent, can be 

 added to the profits of dairying out West over that of 

 the Eastern States. But this is not all, for the prices 



