The Mankato free press., 1921-09-02
DAIRY FIGURES GIVEN
Milk Production In State
For 1919 Is Cited
REPORT FROM CENSUS
Nearly Five Hundred Million
Gallons In Minnesota;
Butterfat, Etc.

Minnesota COWS in 1919 produced
475.5O6,689 gallons of milk, or AZ per
cent increase over that of 1909. The
amount of milk sold in Minnesota in
1919 was 43.151.s96 gallons. In 1909
the census reports 53,1S1,7S5 as hav-
ing been sold. In 1919 the number OF
pounds OF butter tat sold were 20,-
205,076. In 1909 there were 34,708,-
in 1919 amounted 70 4,392,1S5. In
1909 the sales amounted to 1905, ,4O9.
Cream sold in 1919, gallons, 5.S8$, $,53S
In 1909, gallons, 5756,165. Butterfat,
1919, pounds, 82,412,061. In 1909,
Pounds, 40,414,151.
The total production OF milk on
farms in the United States during the
year 1919, according to the fourteenth
census, was 1905. 5.23S.069 gallons. This
quantity includes estimates for farms
which reported dairy cows on hand
but failed to report any milk produc-
tion. The quantity Of milk actually
gallons, as compared with 5,S13,699.-
474 gallons in 1909, representing an
increase of 1,0S0,048,761 gallons, or
1876 per cent. The estimated total
production for 1909, as given in the
Thirteenth Census Reports, was T..
466, ,406,3S4 gallons. The estimates OF
that year, however, were necessarily
based on the number of cows kept
for milk, including many that were
MIXED only a short time in the year,
rather than on the number of strictly
dairy cows; and 1t seems probable
that the estimates were somewhat too
large in many cases. Percentage
comparisons are therefore preferably
based on the milk production as re-
ported. = -
In 1919 there were TOT S6s 4s2
pounds of butter made on farms in
the United States, as compared with
994, $50, $40 pounds in 1909, represent
ing a decrease of 286,984,118 pounds,
or 28.9 Per cent This decrease is
mainly due to the fact that the max
Ing OF butter. is being rapidly trans
ferred from the farms to factories.
There were six states in 1919 which
reported over 100000 pounds of
butter made on farms, as follows:
Texas, 49,405,152 pounds; Pennsyl-
vanta, 38,468,607 pounds: Tennessee,
81 1885, ,063 pounds; Kentucky, 34,OSO,-
416 pounds; Ohio, 30,264, ,265 pounds:
and Georgia, 30,257,153 pounds.
The quantity Of cheese made on
farms in 1919 was 6,371.396 pounds,
while in 1909 the farm production of
cheese was 9,405,864 pounds. There
was thus a decrease of 1904, ,468
pounds, or 1913 per cent during the
decade, Only very small per cent Of
the total production of cheese is
made on farms.
There Were 2,529.380,6 ,638 gallons of
milk hold from farms in the United
States in 1919, as against 1887, ,255 1854
gallons in 1909, representing an in
crease of 592.124,774 gallons, or 3O.6
per cent.
The states reporting the largest
sales of milk in 1918 were New York,
with 573,161, 1862 gallons; and Penn
sylyania with 250,444,940 gallons.
These three states together reported
slightly over one half (51.3 per cent?
OF I'll the IN milk Ks. sold from farms in 1919:
butter in 1919 (7o7, $685. ,4s2 pounds), ,
2O7 ,S59,564 pounds, or 294 per cent,
were reported as sold. The quantity
of butter sold in 1909 was 415,080, ,4S9
pounds. There was therefore a de-
crease Of 207 7,220,925 pounds in butter
sold, or 1873 per cent.
The quantity of cream sold in 1919
was 82,247,580 gallons, as compared
with 54,933,5S3 gallonh in 1909, repre-
ssenting an increase of 27,313,997 gal
Ions, or 49.7 per cent.
ino SdiSS VI puIteIldC from farms
in the United States in 1919 amounted
to 532,244,072 pounds, as compared
with 3Q5, 5,662,587 pounds in 1909 These
figures represent an increase of 226,-
581 .485 poundh, or TAI per cent. Thus
while there has been decrease in
butter and cheese made on farms and
in butter sold, there has beenN a
marked increase in milk, cream, and
buttrfat sold. This is due chiefly to
the change in the method of disposing.
Of dairy products, many farmers now
selling milk, cream, or butterfat to
butter factories instead of making
butter or cheese on the farm \
Five states reported sales of over
30,000,000 pounds of butterfat in 1919,
as follows: Wisconsin. S2,727,323
Iowa: 56.411.147 pounds; California,