The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-01-24
The Dairy Industry.

The Dairy Industry.
Geo. H. Whitaker of Massachusetts
says:
The value of the dairy industry ac-
cording to the census of 1890 was
S412, 900 900, but at the rate of increase
OF previous decades and including the
b~y-products of the dairy, we are safe
in estimating that it is a business to-
day amounting to $500, 00O, 900 annual
ly, more than the annual gold produc-
ton of the world.
(b) The number of mich cows in
the country in 1890 was 16, 600, 900,
probably 20, ZOO, 900 at the present time,
as against 100000 in 1850, showing
what an immense stride the dairy in
terest has made in the closing half of
the present century. Yet The increase
OF cows has not kept pace with the
increase of population, which in 1850
was $4,000, 900. In the forty years be-
tween the census of 1850 and of 1890
population increased TIA per cent, but
the number of mich cows in the coun-
try increased only 166 per cent. The
number of COWS per 1000 population
in 1850 was 275 and in 1890 only 264.
The percentage of increase of COWS
was less than the increase OF popula-
ton in the census OF 1850 and of 1870.
Then the tide turned and the reports
made in 1880 and 1890 showed a gain,
the percentage of increase of cows be-
ing gre.ter than hat of population,
still, not enough 20 offset the losses
OF the census of the two previous dec
AIDES.
The following table shows these fig
ures in a graphic way:
Census of 1850: Population, 23,0OO,-
coo; cows, 5000, 600.
Census of 1860: Population, 3D.
600, 900; cows, 5000, 900; per cent in
crease of population for decade, IS;
per cent increase of COWS for decade,
80.
Census of 1870: Population, 49,
000, e00; cows, 5000, 900; per cent in
crease Of population for decade, %;
per cent increase of cows for decade,
IL.
Census OF 1880: Population, 50,-
00o, 900; cows, 10000, 900; per cent in
crease of population for decade, 30;
per cent increase of cows for decade,
33.
Census of 1890: Population, co.
'Ooo, 700; cows, $4,000, 900; per cent in
rease of population for decade, 26;
per cent increase of cows for decade
90.
(e) The shifting of the center OF
dairy production from east to west is
an interesting study. Thirty years ago
the supply OF butter and cheese in the
Boston market came from New Eng
land. Then came some butter from the
west, of poor grade, fit only for bak-
ers' use. Now the market is largely
dependent upon western supplies and
the condition of the Chicago market is
daily telegraphed and deemed neces-
sary for the successful management OF
business. I have alluded to an increase
of 166 per cent in the number Of cows
in the country between the census OF
1850 and that of 1890 (from 5000 ,0O(
to 5000, 000). But the increase in the
old dairy section-New England, New
York and Pennsylvania, was only 81
per cent-(from 1900, 900 to 5000, 00O)
While in the northern central division
the increase was 700 per cent (fron
1000, 900 to 5000, 000). The increas'
in some individual states has been il
the vicinity of 1000 per cent.
Census of 1850: Dakota, 286; Min
nesota, 6O7; Nebraska, 1000; Califor
MIA, 1900; Oregon, 5000; Iowa, 40,
600; Illinois, 100000; Michigan, SO,
900; Wisconsin, $4,000; Missouri, 800,
900; Kansas. $4,000.
Census of 1890: Dakota, 100000
Minnesota, 594, 900; Nebraska, 505, 900
California, 917,0 900; Oregon, 114,O0O
Iowa, 1,498, 900; Illinois, 1,087 900
Michigan 500, 900; Wisconsin, 1872, 900
Missouri, $4,000; Kansas, $4,000.
Per GEM of gain: Dakota, 1,O5O
7 Minnesota, 977; Nebraska, ITO.
The population Of the earth double
itself in 260 years.