86 ILLINOIS STATE DAJRYMEN's ASSOCIATION. 



20,650,000 steers, at $6^ per head, equal , ;^i, 300, 9 so, 000 



Deduct one-fifth for hide and tallow 260,190,000 



^1,040,760,000 



This is the food value of the annual milk product of the 

 United States, compared with the same amount of nutrition 

 in beef 



STATEMENT SHOWING THE ANNUAL LOSS OF MILK 

 SUGAR IN MAKING BUTTER AND CHEESE IN THE 



UNITED STATES. 



Milk contains 4 1-5 per cent, of milk sugar. — Am. 

 Cyclopedia^ vol. 11, p. S43^ sample 8. 



Milk contains 4^ per cent, of milk sugar. — Willard's 

 Dairy Husbandry , p. 500. 



Skimmed milk contains 4.66 per cent, of milk sugar. 

 — Willard's D. H.,p.^oo. 



Buttermilk contains 4.61 per cent, of milk sugar. — 

 Willard's D. H., p. ^00. 



Whey contains 4.57 per cent, of milk sugar. — -Willard's 

 D. H.,p.jig. (Average of 15 samples). 



Butter contains 0.70 per cent, of milk sugar. — Wil~ 

 lard's D. //., p. ^00. 



Cheese contains lactic acid but no milk sugar. — Wil- 

 lards D. H., pp. j^o, j^/ and ^^2. 



Estimated quantity of butter produced annually, 

 1,000,000,000 pounds. — Dpt. of Agr. Report for i8yj^ p. 

 j^j. Estimate of cheese, 350,000,000 pounds. 



To produce this quantity of butter and cheese (esti- 

 mating 27 pounds of milk for one pound of butter, and gy^ 

 pounds of milk for one pound of cheese,) will require 29,- 

 950,000,000 pounds of milk. Estimating 4^^ per cent, of 

 milk sugar and we find that quantity of milk contains 

 1,272,875,000 pounds of milk sugar. From this deduct 

 milk sugar found in butter — 7,000,000 pounds, and it 

 appears that 1,265,875,000 of milk sugar is run off into the 

 buttermilk and whey and lost. 



We find that the New York wholesale price of milk 

 sugar in 1879 ^^^ 40 to 50 cents a pound. — McKessens & 

 Rob bins Wholesale Druggist List. 



1,265,875,000 pounds of milk sugar at 40 cents per pound ^^506, 350,000 



" " if valued at 20 cents " ;j(,253,i75,ooo 



" " 10 cents " 2^126,587,500 



scents " 5^63,298,750 



Here we have the startling fact before us that the 

 annual waste of milk sugar in the United States — a valuable 

 constituent of milk — if valued at one-eighth of the New 



