Show consumption of cheese shows upward trend americans are eating more cheese says the bureau of agricultural economics the upward trend I 1 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 pounds per person compared with pounds in the 1925 29 period in 1910 14 it averaged pounds and in 1900 1904 the average was pounds per person this thi S 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 during the past five years was wag about the same as in the prewar pre war years of 1910 14 but considerably less than in 1900 1904 in the past 40 years the trend in per capita consumption of meats has been downward by types consumption of american or cheddar cheese has shown the greatest increase from 1930 to 1937 the increase was 33 per cent this cheese is the princ principal 1 p al type t ype produced in the united sta states t es making up over 71 per cent of the total in recent years the second largest increase 32 per pe r cent has been in ID the consumption of cream or neufchatel neut neuf chatel cheese consumption ot of swiss cheese has increased 23 p pel ell cent since 1930 |