^Sptember!'^i9'iS:}         Concentrated  Milk  Products.  655 
"Following  the  thought  expressed  by  you  yesterday  relative  to 
the  production  of  condensed  milk  in  the  United  States,  it  gives  me 
pleasure  to  enclose  herewith  the  data  of  same : 
I  do  not  have  an  accurate  record  of  the  amounts  produced  in 
1 9 14  and  1 91 5,  but  the  amounts  exported  were  as  follows: 
Pounds. 
1914  22,850,904 
1915  75,689,584 
The  amounts  manufactured  and  exported  were  as  follows: 
Pounds.  Pounds.  Percentage  Exported. 
1916  992,364,000  219,686,127  22 
1917  1,333,787,000  428,575,213  32 
1918  1,675,934,000  551,139,754  33 
1919  2,030,958,000  852,865,414  42 
The  number  of  cases  of  condensed  and  evaporated  milks  manu- 
factured were  as  follows: 
19 1 6  Condensed  5,931,000 
Evaporated  14,474, 000 
1917  Condensed  7,482,000 
Evaporated  19,618, 000 
1918  Condensed  10,188,000 
Evaporated  22,998,000  • 
1919  Condensed  13,441,000 
Evaporated  25,720, 000 
I  believe  these  figures  to  be  reliable.  The  data  was  compiled 
by  The  National  Canners'  Association  of  Washington,  D.  C." 
"Milk,"  an  exceedingly  informative  pamphlet  issued  by  the  U. 
S.  Department  of  Labor,  Childrens'  Bureau,  No.  35,  1918;  written 
by  Dr.  Dorothy  Reed  Mendenhall,  and  from  which  considerable 
data  in  this  article  have  been  taken,  gives  the  following  average 
percentage  composition  of  condensed  milk: 
Average;  Composition  of  Condensed  Mii.k  (Hunzikhr). 
Fat   9.0 
Protein   8.5 
Milk  sugar   13-3 
Cane  sugar   40.9 
Ash   1.8 
Water   26  5 
100.0 
