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Sept. 1895.] FOREIGN OFFICE REPORTS. 201 



In Iowa, where the increase of population from 1880 to 1890 

 was 287,281, or 17 * 68 per cent., the increase of the urban 

 popuhition during that period was 261,187, or 50 '68 per cent., 

 while the rural population increased only 26,094, or 2 * 35 

 per cent. The total population in the State is now nearly 

 2,000,000. 



[Foreign Office Report, Annual Series, Ko. 1543. Price 3(i.] 



The Dairy Industry in Five New England States. 



Mr. Percy Sanderson, C.M.G., Her Majesty's Consul-General at 

 IJ^ew York, in a Keport to the Foreign Office on the Agriculture 

 of the States of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, 

 and Rhode Island, says that there is great difficulty in obtaining 

 reliable statistics regarding the production of butter and cheese 

 in those States. 



The latest figures on the subject appear to be those given in 

 the Census Reports of the United States for the year 1890, and 

 even these are stated to be unsatisfactory, inasmuch as they 

 appear on investigation to refer only to farms, to the exclusion 

 of creameries and factories. 



The dairy products of the farms of the five States in question, 

 are given in the following table, which shows that they produce 

 about 1 1 per cent, of the butter, 24 per cent, of the cheese, and 

 15 per cent, of the milk of the United States. 



State. 



Butter. 



Cheese. 



Milk. 



New York . _ . 

 New Jersey - - - 

 Connecticut _ - _ 

 Delaware - 

 Rhode Island - 



Total 

 „ United States 



Lbs. 

 98,241,813 

 8,367,2J8 

 7,196,000 

 2,026,490 

 965,456 



Lbs. 



4,324,028 

 23,613 

 112,566 

 359 

 24,631 



Gallons. 

 663,917,000 

 64,003,950 

 54,413,000 

 10,699,362 

 10,610,547 



116,796,977 

 1,023,821,770 



4,485,197 

 18,725,218 



803,643,859 

 5,207,121,309 



The latest obtainable figures respecting the production of 

 l)utter and cheese in factories and creameries in the State of New 

 York are those furnished by the Commissioner of Agriculture in 

 his report for the year ending September 30, 1893. This report 

 shows that in 12 counties there were no factories of this nature, 

 and that in the remaining 48 counties there were 255 butter 

 factories and 1,156 cheese factories, also 213 factories making 

 l)0th butter and cheese. The whole number of factories was 

 1,624, and their product for the year 1892 was 19,497,257 lbs. 

 of butter and 131,148,310 lbs. of cheese. 



