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Show Consumption of Cheese Shows Upward Trend Americans are eating , more cheese, says the bureau of agricultural agricul-tural economics. The upward trend in consumption has been especially noticeable during the past seven or eight years. In depression years, from 1929 to 1932, the per capita consumption of cheese dropped slightly. Since then the trend has been sharply upward and last year it was 25 per cent greater than in 1930. During the past five years the use of cheese has averaged 5.34 pounds per person, compared with 4.59 pounds in the 1925-29 period. In 1910-14 it averaged 4.28 pounds and in 1900-1904 the average was 4.04 pounds per person. This upward trend in the use of cheese, the bureau points out, has been in contrast with the trends in consumption of many other staple food products. Consumption of butter but-ter during the past five years was about the same as in the pre-war years of 1910-14, but considerably less than in 1900-1904. In the past 40 years the trend in per capita consumption con-sumption of meats has been downward. down-ward. By types, consumption of American Ameri-can or cheddar cheese has shown the greatest increase. From 1930 to 1937 the increase was 33 per cent This cheese is the principal type produced in the United States, making mak-ing up over 71 per cent of the total in recent years. The second largest increase 32 per cent has been In the consumption of cream or neufchatel cheese. Consumption of Swiss cheese has increased 23 per cent since 1930. |