Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-13
DID YOU GET YOUR SHARE
OF HUGE BUTTER SUPPLY?
Production in the United
-, States Is Reported by:
Census Bureau.

You should have had approximately
sixteen pounds of butter Gn your table
| during the year 1909. according to figures
on the production of butter. cheese and
condensed milk just made public by the
census bureau. Further, you must have
had more butter that year than ever be-
fore. because more was produced than
any other time during the decade just
previous. The figures also indicated that
the farmers were apparently turning over
their butter business to the factorie-, f Jr
the figures show an enormous increase in
the production in the factories. contrast
I'd with large decrea:e in the produc-
ton on the farms.
Butter was the chief product of the
factories engaged in the production OF
butter. cheese and condensed milk The
figures show that there were SAID estab-
lishments engaged in the industry in 1909
and that of these J6.4 per cent reported
butter as the chief product ~ per cent
cheese and ID per cent condensed milk
OF the total value of the products shown
FOR the combined industry. the butter
factories contributed S1:i.!E9. 10S. or Il
PEE cent; the cheese factories $44 26s. III.
or 1871 per cent. and the condensed milk
factories s3J.295.343, or 12-9 per cent.
Cost of Materials Great.
This is one Of the industries where the
cost of the materials constitutes the
larger proportion of the total value of
the products. the process OF manufacture
being relatively simple and inexpensive
The cost of materials used in 1879 was
S-Il.346, 064. forming S3.S per cent of the
value Of the products, while the value
added by manufacture was only s''?oli,-
6.I
The factories in this industry gave EN-
ployment to an average of 3l,J1 persons
during 1909. and paid out IN salaries ana
wages total of $14.611 49,. OF the
persons engaged in the industry. lS,i3l
We're wage earners. 5.0Jj were salaried
employees and 3.ti3 were proprietors and
firm members.
In Iao9 the average number of persons
employed in the industry was 31,oO6, OF
whom 1880 were reported by the butter
factories, 1.16f by the cheese factories
and 1852 by the condensed milk fac
tories.
Butter Production.
The combined production of butter in
1899 in the factories of the butter cheese
and condensed milk industry and on
| farms in the United States amounted to
| l.6l9 4i3.2tr3 pounds. an increase Of III,
/ Gsi2.66l pounds. or SO per cent over the
production in 1899
! During the decade the output of the
factories Increased 2O4 63S, 1O7 pounds, or
! 4sI per cent, asd the production on the
| farms decreased 16aI5. 446 pounds. or -
| per cent Al both censuses the produc-
! ton of butter on farms greatly exceeded
/ the factory output. but the proportion
| which IL formed of the combined total de-
| creased from lis per cent in 1879 To 6i4
| per cent in 1853.
The quantity of cheese produced III the
| nited States in the factories oil the m
| dustry and on the farms during 1909
| amounted to 3.O.532. Isl pounds an In
crease of 221s7. a:s3 pounds. or a per
| cent over the product on in 1889. Con-
densed milk shows an increase In produc-
| ton for the decade 1S99-1g3 amounting
| TO :01. s1i .1J1 pounds, or 1914 per cent