The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1880-11-11
Agricultural


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mich esvr ID ihe United States II oer
100000 yrlalrns ne aahua product
n So. on. p99 acres u laad iar les,l. giving
employment 70 65a o9 mea. ana rcqairi 3
che labor Il st6,6oo haseea Estmatink
the caxs 81 SEQ eaeh. ihe horses VI Ssh
aud iise iSna s. So Ter acra, together With
ssNoo0 90 tr agricultural and dairy
implements. and the total Anouut invest
"a 20 the Industry j. e. 2la 92s 600 Tbs
is considerably more Than ihe amount ip-
rested il banking and iho commercial ana
manufacturing interests 81 the cauntry.
which Il 81 SOC sei $50 The cattle and
horses VII require TIVE tons Of hay each
annually. or rs equivalent d. IL ea,l
mated that 5000 900 cows arc iod with
grain ior winter dairying, sna thu, the
horses daily reluiw six quarts q oats or
corn danng the year, they viii consume
-. 81 300 tons q hag, si.3s0 600 bushels
Of corn meal, s4,3To,O90 bushels OF eat
meal, $4,000 tons q bran, 100000
bushols Of corn. 800. oo0. 900 bushels Of
oais. q a total value Of 1854, $50, 400 To
this slould be added the labor Of COO.
900 persons at s20 per month, $4,000
600, making the annual value o. s5oi, isi9,
400. or an average d $3.50 per COW.
Accepting twelve cents per gallon as a
basis for computing the value Of the milk
product, and 4i6 gallons Ms the average
per annuul 'this being tbs average yield
in sixteen states in 1900, the l3,000,0o0
COWS produce annually 9. 793.oO0 900 gal.
Ions Of milk, $685., 100000 Analysis
shows that 0 II pounds 81 milk contain
the same kind and amount Of nutrition as
one pound Of boneless beef The total
weight Of product is 50, 732. 600 600 pounds
equal TO IA, 495 900, 600 pounds Of boneless
beef About so per cent Of a fat steer IS
homeless meat, SO that IL will require 20
coo, 600 steers Of l400 pounds weight to
produce the same amount Of nutrition as
the annual milk product. Such fat steers
would sell at Sl5oper hundred weight, or
S63 each-a total Of $1,000, 5000 de-
Quoting from this amount hide and tallow
S2G0, 100, 900, leaves the meat value 81, 3O0,-
050,00O This gives the food value OF the
milk product in the United States annual
". Willard, in his Practical Dairy Hus-
bandry," says that milk at tweniy-four
cents per gallon is equivalent in value to
boneless beef at nine cents per pound 1t
is false economy, therefore, that substi.
tutes meat for milk as an article Of food.
The same authority fWillard) states that
fifty per cent Of the milk is used in making
butter and cheese, and forty-one per cent
is consumed in liquid state. The de-
partment Of agriculture, 1879, estimates
there are 1000, 900 pounds Of butter
and 100000, 900 pounds Of cheese made
annually in the United States. At TWEEN.
ty-seven pounds of milk for one pound Of
butter, and nine and one-half for one
pound Of cheese, the total amount of milk
used would be &c, $50, 0OO, 900 pounds; add
forty-one per cent of the product for con
sumption. the total production is 50,752,
325, 600 pounds, within small fraction Of
one per cent OF the estimate made The
caseine in the milk used for butter, il nti-
lied for cheese, would produce annually
1,s00, 600, 900 pounds and besides, there
is annually run OIL in the skinned milk
aud whey, 2000O0,0OO pounds of milk
sugar, which, if saved, would have mar
ket value greater than the entire sugar
crop of Cuba