The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1912-12-28
Total Revenue Of 4,413, 1888 Farms in
1910 Was $3.50, 0OO, 900 Larger
Than In 1909.
GOPHER STATE A LEADER
Stands Third in the Production O.
Butter Which Sold for Average
of $O.242 Per Pound.


Special to The Pioneer.
Washington, D. c., Dec. 2S.-A
bulletin summarizing the data col
lected for dairy products in the Uni
ted States for 1909 has Just been is
sued by Director Durand of the
bureau of the census, department of
commerce and labor. It was prepar-
ed under the supervision OF John Lee
Coulter, expert special agent for agri-
culture, and formerly in the faculty
of the University of Minnesota and a
native of Crookston. -- -.
There we're 5,140,Se9 farms in the
United States for which the enumer-
ators reported dairy COWS on, April
Is, 1910. For only 4,413,333 of
these farms were dairy products of
any kind reported as produced in
1909, and for only 4,021, $50 was the
quantity of milk produced in 1909
stated. = 49, -
The total number of dairy cows. on
farmszAPril Is, 191e,~was reported>as
2o,625, e00, while the number on
farms which reported the production
of any kind of dairy products in 1909
was 1S,746,0OO, or 90.9 per cent Of
the total number, and the number on
farms which reported the production
of milk in 1909 was 100000, or
77.9 per cent of the total. In consid-
ering these figures, it should be borne
in mind that there is no precise dis
tinction between dairy cows and
COWS not kept for milk. In a good
many cases. enumerators probably
reported as dairy COWS animals which
in fact were primarily kept for breed
ing purposes and which were only
milked for short periods, if at all,
during the preceding year.
The total production Of milk re-
ported for 1909 was 1914, 100000
gallons; the true total probably ex-
ceeded this by not less than ten per
cent. There were, on April Is, 1910,
16,069,000 dairy COWS on the farms
reporting this milk Assuming that
there were the same number in 1909,
the average production of milk per
COW would be 1852 gallons.
The total value of dairy products
of farms in 1909, exclusive of milk
and cream consumed on the farm,
was reported as $596,413,OO0. This
represents the sum of the receipts
from the sale of milk, cream, and
butter fat (amounting in all to
$872,403,000) and the value of all
butter and cheese produced on farms.
whether sold or retained for home
use amounting to 1924, ,00O.
Value of Dairy Products.
The total reported value of dairy
products sold in 1909 was $473,769,-
900, OF which the value of milk,
cream, and butter fat sold represent
ed nearly four-ffths and that of but
ter most of the remainder. The
quantity of milk sold as such was re-
ported as 1887, 100000 gallons, OF
substantially one-third of the total
reported as produced; but it should
be borne in mind that great deal OF
milk sold or delivered to creameries
for butter making is paid for on the
tent, in which case the quantity OF
such cream or butter fat was usual.
ly reported on the census schedules
and not the quantity of milk. The
greater part Of the milk reported a:
sold was doubtless consumed as such
chiefly in cities and villages, but 8
considerable quantity represents mill
delivered to condensed-milk ane
cheese factories, and some small par,
milk delivered to creameries for the
production of butter and reported a.
milk instead of on the basis Of the
cream or butter fat contained.
Butter and Cheese.
The reported farm production OF
butter and of cheese in 1909-994,-
651 200 pounds and 100000 pounds
respectively-was considerably less
than the production for the year
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