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Show I 1 DAIRYING H MAGNITUDE OF THE DAIRY H INDUSTRY. B ' At recent bulletin of the Connccti- H cut Experiment Station gives the fol- H lowing statement of the magnitude of H the dairy industry of the United H States: H "The clean milk problem, is a vital H one, affecting the production land con- H sumption of over 9,000,000,000 gallons H inthc United States per year, bcing H niv annual supply of over one hundred H . gall oils for every man, woman and H' child m the country. This amount nf- H fords 1.1 quarts a day for every indi- B vidual, which jn'cludcs thc amount H used in making butter and cheese. H The tactual amount of whole milk con- H sinned each day averages about .65 of H a pint fdr every individual. The value H of this product for a year at retail is H the, startling sumi of 2,500,000,000 of B dollars. This is about one-fiftieth of H the entire wealth of the nation, five ' times the wholesale value of last H' -"year's wheat crop, nearly twice the B value of the corn crop, and over onc- 1 jjfiurtf Iff the value' of ific entire farm B products for 1907, which is estimated H at $7,400,000,000. The wholesale value m 01 daigr products last year was $sti- M ;niatcd at $800,000,000, which would al- m low a price of less than ten cents a M gallon for milk at the dairy. Ahry- M forage retail price ot stvcu "cents a m $ quart was assumed, which is probably B Ma 'little below the average price." X |
