Agricultural Products Shipped Into Colorado 
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Denver, and also in carload lots as far west as Grand Junction. It is 
distributed throughout the mountain sections of Colorado, as well as 
in the eastern part of the state. 
DAIRY PRODUCTS. 
Butter and Cream. $3,000,000 
Cheese. 500,000 
Condensed Milk. 400,000 
Malted Milk. 86,000 
Total. $3,986,000 
Butterine, which is used to take the place of butter 930,000 
Total. $4,916,000 
There are approximately 160,000 milch cows in Colorado. Many 
are cows selected from the range and are poorly handled and milked 
through the summer, producing annually only from $20 to $50 a cow 
A number of well selected cows are kept in or near towns, and are 
fed, producing annually from $50 to $150 a cow. The average annual 
production is probably not over $40 a cow, or a total yearly production 
for the state, from dairy products, of $6,400,000. If these estimates 
are correct, Colorado farmers are supplying about 56 per cent, of the 
dairy products and substitutes for dairy products consumed in the 
state. 
Butter and Cream .—A large amount of butter is shipped into 
Colorado from Kansas and Nebraska and the larger proportion of 
the cream churned in the large factories in Denver, Colorado Springs, 
and Pueblo is shipped in from Kansas and Nebraska. One concern 
alone in Denver churned, in 1909, over three million pounds of butter, 
a large per cent, of it from Nebraska cream. 
Some of the largest handlers of dairy products in the state esti¬ 
mate that in 1909 an average of over 30,000 pounds of butter were 
shipped daily into Colorado either as butter or in cream that was 
churned after arrival. Butter made from Kansas and Nebraska 
cream is used in Mountain sections of Colorado 450 miles distant from 
Denver. 
Cheese .—The quantity of cheese made in Colorado is so small that 
it is seldom found in most of the towns of the state. Most of the 
cheese eaten in the state comes from New York. 
Condensed Milk .—The one condensed milk factory in Colorado is 
situated at Fort Lupton. It has a good trade, puts up a good pro¬ 
duct, and pays a high price to the farmer for milk. 
During 1909 there was a general shortage of milk and cream in 
most of the towns of the state, and city families were forced to use 
condensed milk. Many thousand farm families also used condensed 
milk. 
The use in Colorado of condensed milk has been increasing 
rapidly every year for several years. Wholesale houses report that 
in 1909 they had a demand for double the quantity of condensed milk 
that they sold, but they could not secure it from the manufacturers. 
