Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-11-03

4 At the late convention of the American
butter and cheese association, the presi
dent of the northwestern dairyman's AS
ISOLATION, Hon. G. P. Lord of Eigin. III :,
read a paper in which he estimated the
number of mich cows in the United States
at over $1,000 900, requiring the annual
product of 52,000,000 acres of land for
feed, giving employment to 100000 men,
and requiring the labor of 500 600 horses.
Estimating the cows at $50 each, the
horses at $50, and the land at $50 per
acre, together with S2O0,0O0,000 for agri-
cultural and dairy implements, and the
total amount invested in the industry is
S2,2l9.328,000. This is considerably
more than the amount invested in banking
and the commercial and manufacturing
interests of the country, which is Sl,SO0,
964, $50. The cattle and horses will re-
quire two tons of hay each annually, or
its equivalent. If it is estimated that
100000 cows are fed with grain for win
ter dairying, and that the horses daily re-
quire six quarts of oats or corn during the
year, they will consume %, 1885, 300 tons OF
hay. 81, $50, 900 bushels of corn meal ST.
$4,000 bushels of oat meal, l,250, 900 tons
of bran, 30,000,000 bushels of corn and
800, 900 900 bushels of oats, of a total val
ne of 1884 $50, 400. To this should be
added the labor of 100000 persons at $40
per month, 1856 100000, making the an
nual value of 1904 ,469, 400, or an average
of $3.50 per COW.
Accepting twelve cents per gallon as Il
basis for computing the value of the milk
product, ard 446 gallons as the averag,
per annum (this being the average yield
in sixteen states in 1860, the 100000
cows produce annu lily 5,793,000,O00 gal
Ions of milk, worth $685., 76O, 900. Anal
ysis shows that 1-2 pounds of milk con
tain the same kind and amount of nutri
ton as one pound of homeless beef. The
total weight of product is 50.732. 600 900
pounds, equal to IA 495, 100000 pounds Of
homeless beef. About fifty per cent of Il
fat steer is homeless meat, so that it will
require 20,650,000 steers Of 400 pound,
weight to produce the same amount OF
nutrition as the annual milk product
Such fat steers would sell at 81 80 pei
hundred weight, or 1868 each-a total oil
81 300, 950,000; deducting from this
amount hide and tallow, $3.50, 10000
leaves the meat value $1,000, 050,00O
This gives the food value of the milk
product in the United States annually
Willard, in his Practical Dairy Husband
ry," says that milk at twenty-four cents
per gallon is equivalent in value to bone
less beef at nine cents per pound" 1t is
false economy, therefore, that substitutes
meat for milk as an article of food.
The same authority Willard states that
fifty per cent of the milk is used in
making butter and cheese, and furty-ont
per cent is consumed in liquid state
rhe department of agriculture, 1879, es.
Inmates that there are 100000 pounds o.
butter and 300,000,000 pounds of chees,
made annually in the United States. A
twenty-seven pounds of milk for one
pound of butter, and nine and ne-half 70
one pound OF cheese. the total amount o
milk used would be 20,950, 100000 pounds
add forty-one per cent of the product 70
consumption, the total production is so.
1872, 1925, 900 pounds, within u small Fraction
of one per cent of the estimate made. Tn
caseine in the milk used for butter,
utilized for cheese, would produce annual
ly l,S00,000,00 pounds; and besides
there is annually run off in the skimme'
milk and whey, 2O0,000,000 pounds G
milk sugar, which, if saved, would have
market value greater than the entir
annual sugar crop of Cuba.