Dairying in Maine. 



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and the amount of flour and other products produced in 1900 

 and 1890 : — 





1900. 



1890. 





Grain used. 



Flour 



Grain used. 



Flour 





Bushels. 



produced. 



Bushels. 



produced. 





000 omitted. 



Cwts. 



000 omitted. 



Cwts. 





000 omitted. 





000 omitted. 



Wheat 



489,914 



179,417 



385,750 



141 ,660 



Maize ... 



241,029 



70,063 



166,293 



64,571 



Rye 



12,721 



3.044 



12,140 



3,740 



Buckwheat 



8,317 



1,907 



7,032 



1,611 



Barley 



12,289 



890 



8,696 



2,900 



Other Grain 



70,873 





47,104 





Hominy 





2,730 





2,052 



Offal -. 





58,570 





62,517 



Other Products 





£18,214 





£6,798 



The most interesting feature of the returns is the large amount 

 of material (chiefly barley and maize) which is no longer ground 

 for flour, but is turned out as " feed." This " feed " amounted in 

 1900 to 89,833,000 cwt. (valued at £16,947,000), and accounted 

 for nearly all the "other products" in the above table. The 

 corresponding quantity produced in 1890 is not given. 



Dairy Industry in Maine. 



According to the United States census, there were 173,592 

 dairy cows on 49,161 farms in the State of Maine in 1 901. The 

 total amount of milk produced was 99,586,188 gallons, or an 

 average of 573 gallons per cow, i.e., a little over 6h quarts per 

 day per cow, supposing the animals to have been in milk during 

 the whole year. There were manufactured on the farms 

 16,174,173 lb. of butter, and 425,102 lb. of cheese, of which 

 1 1,030,091 lb. and 365,936 lb. respectively were sold. The value 



