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or 12 cents per quart is the cheapest animal food that can be used. 
England has been from time immemorial a great cheese-eating" 
country. Her laboring and her poorer classes demand it as the 
cheapest and most nutritious animal food within their reach; and. 
this demand will increase as long as the article can be supplied at 
reasonable rates. But while the people of England are increasing 
at about the rate of a million a year, her capacity for producing 
butter and chease is not increasing. 
The same may be said of Germany, to which England has looked 
for large supplies. The time is near at hand when these realms- 
must be very largely supplied from abroad; and as there are no oth¬ 
er sections of Europe making butter and cheese to export in any 
considerable quantity, the want will have to be supplied as a mat¬ 
ter of necessity by the dairy of the United States. It is estimated 
that the demand for cheese in England alone will increase at the 
rate of ten million pounds per year, while the annual increase in 
our home demand is about six million pounds. But high above 
that of cheese, rises the butter interest. We export as yet compar¬ 
atively little butter; we consume nearly four fold as much as 
we do of cheese—or in other words, about 15 pounds of the one, 
and 41- of the other, to each inhabitant per annum. 
INTERESTING RESULTS OF NINETY NEW YORK DAIRIES. 
Prof. Wickson, of Utica, N. Y., gave results of ninety cheese fac¬ 
tories and creameries, located in different parts of the state of New 
York, giving the average net return per cow to patrons, the highest 
average per cow to a single patron, and the lowest average per cow 
to a single patron. The figures are drawn from the actual records 
of the yields of more than thirty-six thousand cows. The average 
yield per cow in these factories during the season of 1874 has been 
$39.57. In the individual factories the highest average per cow 
reported is $55.07, and the lowest average per cow in a factory run¬ 
ning the same number of days is $31.22. Taking all the cows into 
the account, it appears that the average return per cow for the 
season of average length is $39.57. It will be remembered that 
these figures are factory averages, not average yields in single herds. 
It appears from comparing the reports of these factories that the 
average return net to patrons for 100 ponnds of milk has been one 
dollar and twenty-two cents. The highest net yield is one dollar 
