. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 14 THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, October 3, 1908. DAIRY STATISTICS. The dairy industry of the United States is a congenial study for those who like statistics, says Column's Rural World. There are more than 21,000,000 cows milked in the United States every day, each gives 3,560 pounds of milk a year, making the annual output of this coun- try about 70,000,000,000 pounds of milk. It is disposed of in various ways. A lit- tle over half of it is required for the mak- ing of butter, one billion pounds of it goes into condensed milk, three billion into cheese
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 14 THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, October 3, 1908. DAIRY STATISTICS. The dairy industry of the United States is a congenial study for those who like statistics, says Column's Rural World. There are more than 21,000,000 cows milked in the United States every day, each gives 3,560 pounds of milk a year, making the annual output of this coun- try about 70,000,000,000 pounds of milk. It is disposed of in various ways. A lit- tle over half of it is required for the mak- ing of butter, one billion pounds of it goes into condensed milk, three billion into cheese, and the rest is sold as cream, fed to the calves, or divided among the people of the country, each of whom should receive seven-tenths of a pound of milk a dayâa good sized tumbler full. If the cows were all told off and assigned to specific duty in this dairy products business, 6,400,000 of them would be re- quired to furnish the milk, condensed milk and cream; 10,900,000 would con- fine their attention solely to butter, and would each be expected to furnish 15]% pounds a year; 840,000 would be assigned to the cheese industry, and the remain- ing number would have the raising of all the calves. Hogs went up to $ at Chicago Saturday, September 12th, the highest figure at which pork has been quoted since 1903. During the past two weeks the price has been steadily climbing, and when it reached $ it was thought the high water mark had been reached. Friday the price went to $ but the price had S cents more to climb. Retail butchers say that if th' price is sustained pork will be a lux- ury. Pork chops, bacon, tenderloins and ham will go up at a bound.âRural World. SHEEP MANURE AS A FERTILIZER Among reasons frequently given why farmers should breed more sheep is that the value of manure from sheep is so much greater than that from any other kind of animals. This is with- out doubt true under conditions or- dinarily found on the farms of the country. But extreme state
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