PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION OF DAIEY PRODUCTS. 
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RECEIPTS OF BUTTER AT NEW YORK CITY. 
The receipts of butter at New York City amounted to 75,000,000 
pounds in 1S80 and increased to 125,000,000 in 1910. At the earlier 
date the shipments east of Chicago amounted to less than 60,000,000 
pounds, so that New York City could not have been entirely depend- 
ent upon butter shipped from Chicago. However, in 1911 there 
were shipped east 240,000,000 pounds, or nearly twice the amount 
received at New York. Therefore, it is readily seen that western 
butter must go into other eastern markets as well as New York City. 
Taking the difference between the average per capita production 
for the United States as a whole and the average per capita con- 
sumption, the North Atlantic States would show a deficit of nearly 
200,000,000 pounds; while the North Central States would have a 
surplus of 325,000,000 pounds; so it will be seen that the latter group 
supplies the deficit, not only for the Northern Atlantic States, but 
also for other parts of the country. 
SPECIAL STUDY OF CONSUMPTION OF MILK AND BUTTER. 
QUANTITY OF MILK USED ON FARMS. 
A circular letter was sent to correspondents of the Bureau of Crop 
Estimates asking for the number of persons in a household and the 
average daily consumption of milk and of butter. Replies to this 
letter indicated that the average person in a farm household con- 
sumes about three-fourths of a quart of milk per day. This in- 
cludes milk used for cooking, as well as that consumed raw or used 
with tea or coffee. The average household of the farmer was found to 
be 5.3 persons, so that altogether they consumed over 4 quarts per 
day. If the average consumption per farm for the year is multiplied 
by the total number of farms reporting dairy cows it shows that 
nearly 8,000,000,000 quarts of milk are used on farms for consump- 
tion raw. This amount nearly equals the quantity received by butter, 
cheese factories, and condenseries. 
Table 10.- 
—Milk consumption 
on farms. 
Geographic division. 
Average 
number of 
members 
per 
household. 
Average milk con- 
sumed— 
Farms 
reporting 
dairy cows. 
Estimated 
total milk 
Per house- 
hold per 
year. 
Per capita 
per year. 
consumption 
on farms. 
New England 
5.3 
4.6 
4.7 
5.4 
5.3 
5.5 
5.9 
6.2 
4.9 
Quarts. 
1,425 
1,059 
1,111 
1,436 
1,568 
1,780 
1,862 
1,986 
1,364 
Quarts. 
271 
231 
238 
267 
297 
326 
317 
319 
276 
Number. 
147,028 
400, 473 
1,009,479 
989, 135 
794,716 
815, 423 
724,466 
120,328 
139,821 
Quarts. 
209,514,900 
424,100,907 
1,121,531,169 
1,420,397,860 
1,246,114,688 
1,451,452,940 
1,348,955,692 
238,971,458 
190,715,844 
Middle Atlantic 
East North Central 
West North Central 
South Atlantic 
East South Central 
West South Central 
Mountain. 
Pacific 
Total, United States . . 
5.3 
1,488 
288 
5,140,809 
7,051,755,458 
