The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-12-27

milk and cheese factories, and some small part milk delivered to creamer- reported as milk instead of on the be. sis of the cream or butter fat contain ed.
 BUFFER AND CHEESE
 The reported farm production of butter and of cheese in 1909-994, ,651, 900 pounds and 9,4O6 900 pounds, respec- tiveIy-was considerably less than the production for the year 1899 as given fin the published reports of the Twelfth Census, but this difference is doubtless due in part to the fact that the latter included some estimates for farms with incomplete reports The marEIf fracture Of butter and cheese is, however, gradually being transferred from farms to factories. The conibin- ed farm and factory production of butter was 1.61s, ,425, 900 pounds in 1909 and ], 1,491, ,753, 900 pounds in 1sS9- The increase during the decade was thus 127, ,663, 900 pounds. or 8.6 per cent. The 4s-7 per cent Of the total product, that made in factories constituted s. per cent. in 1909 and -282 per cent in 1899.
 The production of cheese on farms and in factories was 320, ,532, GOO pounds in 1909, an increase of "A per cent. At both censuses much the greater part of the cheese was made in factories, but the proportion in 1909 (97.1 per cent) was higher than that in 1899 (s4.5 per cent.)
 in 1908 (excIuding the value of milk and cream consumed on the farm where produced), the East North Cen tral division reported s15s. .674 900, or vision $1SO. T75, coo, or 21.9 per cent, and the West North Central division s10s,- 5.eO0. or 1&2 per cent, these three divisions together reporting over two however, that the relative4 importance of the home consumption of milk and cream is considerably greater in the South and somewhat greater in the West than it is in the North.
 According to the figures reported, the average production of milk per COW (baSed on the number of dairy cows in 1910 on farms reporting milk pro duced in 1909 and the quantity of milk produced in 19G9) was very much greater in the New En gland, Middle ci1c divisions than in any of the rest. This doubtless conforms approximately to the facts.
 The quantity of butter made on farms was less in 1909 than in 1899 in the four geographic divisions of the North, and also in the Pacific division, but in all of these divisions except the Middle Atlantic and the New England. the factory production was decidedly greater in the later year than in the earlier. In the three southern divis- ions, where practically all the butter is still made on farms, there was an increase in farm production between 1899 and 1909, the percentage of in crease for the three divisions then to- gether being 41. Of the two divisions in which the greater part of cheese is made in factories, the Middle At laI1tic division shows a marked de- crease in production, while in the East North Central there was increase of 50 Der cent. in the combined farm and factory output.
 LEADING DAIRY STATES In 1909 the leading dairy states. as judged by the total value of the farm production (excluding milk and cream used at home), were New York, Wis consin, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Iowa, Ohio. Minnesota, Michigan and Cali 6ornia, in each of which the value duction of butter Con farms and in factories combined) Wisconsin was the