French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-03-02
AMERICAN DAIRIEs EQUIPPED
TO SUPPLY NATIONS NEEDS.
Supplies Could be Furnished Abroad
re Access to Foreign Markets
We're to be Had.
Mfxon S. PIummer in Charlotte OBJ
server.)


Washington, Feb. 15-Estimates
given by the National Geographic So-
ciety of milk and butter in the United
States show that this nation is amply
equipped to supply the needs of the
people mere and in condition to fur
niSh supplies abroad. if access can be
had to foreign markets. A statemtnS
on these items has been issued by the
secretary of the society and is as fol-.
lows:
I'm any discussion of the worlds:
market basket the importance of milk
cannot be overlooked. In the United
States alone We produce more than,
5000, 100000 gallons a year. This is
an average of nearly one gallon a COW
a day. Exclusive of the milk and
cream consumed on the farms of the
country (Which, by the way represents
the bulk of our ~proGaction) our dairy
products are worth $500, 100000 a year.
In other words, they are worth
enough to build a Panama Canal and,
pay for the maintenance of the Amerf-.
can army and navy every year.
only one-third of all the milk pro-
duced in the United States is sold from
the farm. Much of that which remains
is used for domestic purposes there,
although 1000, 900 900 pounds of but
ter is proudly exhibited by the Amert-
can farm, as one of its by-producta.
The total production of butter in the
United States is around 1,700,000
pounds. While 10 out of every II
pounds of our butter is produced on
the farm, nearly all of u cheese is
made in factories.
Milk is used everywhere that man
lives and it is secured from many
different kinds of animals. Around
the Arctic Ocean the Laplander milks
his reindeer and freezes the milk into
to keep until needed. In tho
desert regions of Asia the natives
II western Asia there are wandering
Tartar tribes which live largely or
mares milk. IN many countries the.
goat is the poor mans COW, while
sheep milk is widely used in the man
ufacture of cheese in Europe. In re-
cent years Russia has built up a large
dairy industry I'm SIBERIA, and before
the war great express trains, sweep
ing across two continents, carrying
nothing but dairy products were al
striking object lesson of the worlds
craving for butIec and cheese. The
Chinese, Koreans and Japanese use
comparatively lite milk, their c0un-
tries being too populous to admit Of
The Keeping of many cows.
Little Denmark leads all the eoun-
Tries Of the world In the expectation
Of dairy products, and Danish butter
Is known wherever good living is en-
Danish dairymen have been
Imported to all parts OF the tempWr4
ate world to teach the societies Of
nigh class dairpfng. i
There are no world statistics Of
the productions Of chRe8e except Of,
hat part moving in international trade
Tit United States annually produces
about four pounds per capita. The
total amount imported by all the eOuH-l
tries of the world is 531 100000 pounds,
of which the United Kingdom takes
$50, 900 600, Germany Al, 00o, 900 ana
Austria-Hungary 13, 00o, 600. Bulgaria
and Switzerland have $50 ,0Ogs00N
pounds to give a cheese-hungry woFld1,,i