The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-12-27
DAIRY PRODUCTS
OF UNITED STATES

tin summarizing the data collecleu ioI
dairly products in the United States
for 1909 has just been issued by Di-
rector Durand of the Bureau of the
Census, Department of Commerce and
Labor. 1t was prepared under the su'
pervision of John Lee Coulter, expert
agent for agriculture.
There we're 5,14O,S69 farms in the
United States for which the enumera-
tors reported dairy COWS on April 10,
1910. For only 4,4l3,333 OF these
farms we're dairy products of any kind
reported as produced in 1909, and for
only 4,021, 400 was the quantity OF
milk produced in 1903 stated. The
total number of dairy cows on farms
April Is. 1910, was reported as TO-
$4,000. while the number on farms
which reported the production of any
kind of dairy products in 1909 was
1s,746,0 900, or 800 per cent of the total
number, and the number on farms
which reported the production OF milk
in 1909 was 16,069,000, or 77.9 per
cent of the total In considering these
figures, it should be borne in mind
that there is no precise distinction be-
tween dairy cows and cows not kept
for milk. In a good many cases enum-
orators probably reported as dairy
COWS animals which in fact were prl-
mariIy kept for breeding purposes and
which were oaly MIXED for short per-
iods, IL at all during the preceding
year.
The total production of milk report
ed for 1909 was 5,S14000,0O0 gallons;
the true total probably exceeded this
by not less than 10 per cent. There
were, on April Is, 1910, l6,069,0OO
dairy COWS on the farms reporting this
milk. Assuming that there were the
same number in 1909, the average pro-
duction OF milk per COW would be S62
gallons.
The total value OF dairy products OF
farms in 1909, exclusive of milk and
cream consumed on the farm, was re,
ported as $596,413000. This repre-
sents the sum OF the receipts from the
sale of milk, cream, and butter fat
amounting in all to $S72, 3,000l, and
the value OF all butter and cheese pro
5 duced on farms, whether sold or re
tanned for home use amounting e
$224,010,000)
Value Of Dairy Products.
The total reported value Of dair!
products sold in 1909 was $473,769,OO0
of which the value Of milk, cream, ant
butter fat sold represented nearl,
four-fifths and that Of butter most o
the remainder The quantity OF mill
sold as such was reported as 1887,
100000 gallons, or substantially one
third of the total reported as produced
but it should be borne in mind tina
great deal OF milk sold or delivered
to creameries for butter making Il
paid for on the basis OF the cream o
butter fat content, in which case thu
auantity of such cream or butter ia
was usually reported on the census
schedules and not the quantity of milk
The greater part of the milk reported
as sold was doubtless consumed a
such, chiefly in cities and villages
but a considerable quantity represent
milk delivered to condensed-milk ant
cheese factories, and some small par
milk delivered to creameries for tn
production of butter and reported a
milk instead of on the basis OF tn
cream or butter fat contained
Butter and Cheese.
The reported farm production of bu
ter and cheese in 909-99465l,0 90
pounds and 100000 pounds respeC
tively-was considerably less tha
the production for the year 1899 a
given in the published reports of tn
Twelfth Census. but this difterenc
is doubtless due in part to the fac
that the latter included some est
mates for farms with incomplete re
ports. The manufacture of butter an
cheese is, however, gradually bein
transferred from farms to factories
The combined farm and factory pre-
duction Of butter was l,619,4150C
pounds in 1909 and l,49l 1890
pounds in 1899. The increase durin
the decade was thus 127,66300
pounds, or SO per cent The factor
production alone increased 4S.7 p'
cent. OF the total product that mad
in factories constituted $50 per cer
in 1909 and 2S.2 per cent in 1899
The production of cheese on farm
and in factories was 320,532,0(
pounds in 1909, an increase of IA p'
cent At both ceususes much Il
greater part of the cheese was mac