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BULLETIN 177, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Prior to 1875, shipments of butter amounted to less than 20,000,000 
pounds, but in the next five years they had reached 35,000,000 
pounds and in 1911, 285,000,000 pounds. Of the 1910 shipments 
75 per cent were forwarded over "eastern lines" and, presumably, 
were consumed in the North Atlantic States. In 1911 the shipments 
of butter over "eastern lines" exceeded the entire farm and factory 
production in the North Atlantic States. 
Table 9. — Receipts and shipments of butter at Chicago, 1870-1911. 
Receipts. 
Year. 
Chicago & 
North West- 
ern Ry. 
Illinois Cen- 
tral Ry. 
Chicago, Rock 
Island & Pa- 
cific Ry. 
Chicago, Bur- 
lington & 
Quincy R. R. 
1900 
Pounds. 
72,341,368 
67,504,965 
70,756,785 
74,394,032 
74,163,297 
77,386,276 
62,352,403 
71,327,391 
82,140,322 
79,079,399 
105,892,369 
106,174,300 
Pounds. 
15,091,300 
16,157,000 
15,545,900 
14,512,200 
18,707,620 
20,039,400 
23,682,800 
22,968,265 
19,774,100 
19,419,500 
16,818,200 
10,652,300 
Pounds. 
16,945,148 
12,953,692 
9,630,909 
14,839.751 
20,605,673 
40,318,260 
33,802,475 
27,794,396 
28,995,256 
17,426,093 
19,870,309 
20,675,900 
Pounds. 
17,042,055 
1901... 
22,440,240 
1902 
21,511,390 
1903 
19,697,800 
1904 
18,529,708 
1905 
23,272,195 
1906 
33,694,683 
1907 
47,907,105 
1908 
65,287,598 
1909 
57,144,541 
1910 
57,429,012 
1911 
58,418,200 
Average: 
1870-1874 
5,980,855 
14,830,358 
20,859,824 
34,987,966 
35,601,770 
67,707,672 
71,832,089 
74,457,158 
1,596,560 
2,355,528 
8,596,308 
13,680,105 
21,772,140 
30,992,093 
14,995,035 
29,667,296 
5,047,721 
6,055,937 
1875-1879 
6,705,835 
11,512,078 
14,630,295 
12,574,276 
16,332,074 
16,002,804 
21,176,813 
1880-1884 
7,557,451 
1885-1889 
12,810,383 
1890-1894.... 
12,145,476 
1895-1899. 
20,027,476 
1900-1904 
19,844,239 
1905-1909. . . . 
45,461,224 
Receipts. 
Year. 
Chicago, Mil- 
waukee, & St. 
Paul Ry. 
Other routes. 
Total. 
Total ship- 
ments. 
1900 
Pounds. 
89,586,700 
98,205,060 
65,649,800 
63,108,400 
62,446,200 
65,252,973 
48,679,084 
47,947,342 
74,041,760 
71,048,129 
71,490,137 
64,326,100 
Pounds. 
33,378,619 
36,548,286 
36,137,758 
45,480,301 
48,671,648 
45,645,699 
46,436,653 
45,770,143 
46,455,746 
40,429,173 
47,485,473 
74,685,600 
Pounds. 
244,385,190 
253,809,243 
219,232,542 
232,032,484 
243,124,146 
271,914,803 
248,648,098 
263,714,642 
316,694,782 
284,546,835 
318,985,500 
334,932,400 
Pounds. 
208,536,699 
1901 
245,488,028 
201,787,285 
1902 
1903 
197,620,859 
1904 
249,359,694 
1905 
254,130,889 
1906 
252,807,516 
1907 
252,005,932 
1908 
269,178,313 
1909 
235,648,837 
1910 
266,288,900 
285,685,400 
1911 
Average: 
1870-1874 
1875-1879 
7,510,102 
21,493,212 
30,302,740 
38,901,702 
75,910,798 
75,799,232 
61,393,858 
2,702,835 
1,842,147 
7,093,265 
15,449,152 
9,532,719 
40,043,322 
44,947,483 
40,160,595 
71,861,020 
113,504,754 
136,444,516 
220,502,832 
238,516,721 
277,103,832 
37,234,087 
68,644,705 
114,995,773 
1880-1884 
1885-1889 
1890-1894 
148,425,031 
200,973,909 
1895-1899 
1900-1904 
220,558,513 
1905-1909 
252,754,297 
