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Prodnciion and Consumption of Milk. 
was dismissed as being altogether exceptional in regard to milk. 
There remained the two quantities given by the figures referring to 
the London milk supply (11 ‘55 gallons), and by those obtained from 
milk sellers in various localities (19‘75 gallons). The calculation re- 
ferring to London milk was perhaps the closest and most reliable 
which I was able to gh'e, resting as it does almost entirely on ascer- 
tained figures. Unfortunately, for reasons previously stated, we 
cannot rely on it as typical of the country at large. Nor, in the 
face of the London figures, should we be justified in adopting 
universally the figure given by the milk sellers’ returns. Taking 
everything into consideration, I ventured to suggest that an average 
of 15 gallons per head represented the annual milk consumption of 
the people of the United Kingdom. This amounts to a daily con- 
sumption of one-third (0'33) of a pint per day per head, as compared 
with Mr. Morton’s latest estimate (1885) of one-fourth of a pmt per 
head. 
Taking, therefore, the annual production (on the basis of 1890), 
as previously stated, at 1,417 million gallons, we may reckon it to 
be consumed as follows: — Milk, 570 million gallons; butter, 617 
million gallons (representing 105,000 tons of butter) ; cheese, 224 
million gallons (representing 100,000 tons of cheese) ; miscellaneous 
(condensed milk, &c.), 6 million gallons.' 
The total consumption per head of dairy produce, with the 
amount of milk represented thereby, is shown in the following 
statement : — 
Consumption per Head 
Total Quantity of Milk represented 
(in thousands of gallons— UOO’s 
omitted) 
Kome 
Produce 
Foreign 
Produce 
U\el 
Imports) 
Total 
Home 
Produce 
Foreign 
Produce 
Total 
Milk 
Butter .... 
Cheese .... 
Miscellaneous, con- 
densed milk, &c. 
Galls. 
15 
lb. 
fi-2 
6-9 
}- 
Galls. 
lb. 
8-8 
6i 
Galls. 
15 
lb. 
15 
12 
Galls. 
570.000, 
617.000, 
224.000, 
6,000, 
Galls. 
884.000, 
232.000, 
13,000, 
Galls. 
570.000, 
1,501,000, 
456.000, 
19.000, 
— 
— 
1,417,000, 
1,129,000, 
2,546,000, 
In calculating the ratio of milk to cheese and butter respectively, 
I assumed throughout the paper that 1 lb. of cheese represents one 
gallon, and 1 lb. of butter i-epresents 21 pints. The latter was, in 
‘ Reducing these figures to percentages, it would appear that of the milk 
produced in the United Kingdom, 40 2 per cent, is consumed as milk, 43’5 per 
cent, as butter, 15'8 per cent, as cheese, and 0 4 per cent, as condensed milk, 
&c. — E d. 
“ The quantity of milk represented by the cheese and butter imported is 
based on the same ratio as that of the home produce. 
