Southern planter: devoted to practical and progressive agriculture, horticulture, trucking, live stock and the fireside . enhancing largely the value of the land and thewealth of the community. This is evidenced by theprosperous condition of the farmers in sections ofWisconsin where cheese and butter making are stapleindustries, in the section around Elgin in Illinoiswhere butter making is a great industry and in NewYork state where milk and cream is largely produced. as a food. Recent statistics go to show that the con-sumption of milk and cream per capita in the citiesof the South is not one
Southern planter: devoted to practical and progressive agriculture, horticulture, trucking, live stock and the fireside . enhancing largely the value of the land and thewealth of the community. This is evidenced by theprosperous condition of the farmers in sections ofWisconsin where cheese and butter making are stapleindustries, in the section around Elgin in Illinoiswhere butter making is a great industry and in NewYork state where milk and cream is largely produced. as a food. Recent statistics go to show that the con-sumption of milk and cream per capita in the citiesof the South is not one-half of the consumption percapita in the North. There are few cities in theSouth where the consumption of milk exceeds onethird of a pint per head per day and in some citiesit falls to one-fourth of a pint. In some of the citiesof the North it reaches one pint per head per dayand the average exceeds one-half pint per head. Theconsumption of cream is in the like degree small inthe South, indeed in many cities it is practically im-possible to obtain cream. On a few farms in thisState advantage has been taken of this
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