The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-20
AMERICAN COW
 4. IN WAR TIMES

The American COW is doing her bit 1 SA the great war. She has contribu- ted one hundred million dollars worth | of her products to the exports of the United States in the last year, nearly all of it going to the "boys In the trenches chiefly in the form of con- deneed milk. A compilation by The National City Bank of New York shows that the quantity of condensed milk exported in the fiscal year 1918, ending with June, will approximate 800 million pounds against 2660 mill lions in the fiscal year 1917, 160 mill lions in 1916 and but 37 millions in the fiscal year 1915. The stated val ue of the condensed milk thus export ed aggregates for the fiscal year 1918 about 70 million dollars, and when we add the other contributions of the COW, butter and cheese, the total val ue which she hes contributed to the exports, including supplies sent by the Government, will aggregate in round terms 100 million dollars against 50 millions in 1917, 25 millions in 1918, 1S millions in 1915 and less than 3 millions in the fiscal year 191A all of which immediately preceded the war.
 Thus the American cows contribu- tions to the export trade of the United States have jumped from less than 5 million dollars in the fiscal year 1914 to 13 millions in 1915, 35 millions in 1916, 50 millions in 1917 and 100 mil- lions in 1918. These figures are nec- essarily in very round terms especial ly those for the fiscal year 1913 for which the record is not yet complete. But from the actual figures now available, covering in detail the II months ending with May, we may safely say that the total value of the dairy products sent out of continental United States in the year ending with the current month, June 1918, will aggregate in value nearly 100 million dollars, of which condensed milk alone will approximate 70 million dol lars. and of butter and cheese about million dollars each, while the quan- titles supplied for use on naval vessels and Government transports and not included in the Governments export record may easily bring the grand to- tai up to 100 million dollars.
 The bulk of this large and rapidly increasing exportation of diary pro- ducts goes to the men in the trench es. Of the 400 million pounds of con- densed and evaporated milk exported in the nine months ending with March for which detailed figures are avail able, IFS million pounds went to Ct Britain whence 1t was presumably passed to the men on the battlefield; 70 million pounds direct to France; IT millions to Belgium; II millions to the Netherlands; 20 millions to Cuba; 10 millions to the Philippines; 10 mil lions to China and Japan and 10 mill lions to British South Africa.
 Butter and cheese exports in the fiscal year 1918 show a marked de- cline when compared with 1917, while condensed milk on the other hand shows a marked increase. The quan- tity of butter exported in the nine months ending with March 1918 was but 12 million pounds against 25 mill lions in the same month of 1917, and of cheese 12 million pounds against 43 millions in the same months of the preceding year. But of condensed and evaporated milk the quantity in the nine months ending with March 1918 was 401 million pounds against A66 millinos in the same months of 1917 and 90 millions in the corres- bonding months of 1918.
 The large quantity of milk used in the production of this $500 million pounds of the condensed article sent out of the country in the fiscal year 1916 was produced chiefly in the stretch of country fronting upon the Great Lakes; New York, Northern Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan. The largest part was from the dairy farms and condensed milk factories in New York, next in importance from those of Wis consin, but in lesser quantities from the other states above named, while considerable quantities have also been supplied from Utah and the Pacific Coast.
 The value of the condensed milk ex- ported from the United States in the fiscal year 1918 actually exceeds the value of all the condensed milk pro- duced in the entire country in 1914,