. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 996 Rural School Leaflet. Using round numbers we may say that 6,000,000,000 pounds of milk are produced annually by New York cows ( pounds is the weight of one quart). Milk is used for: (i) food, (2) butter, (3) cheese, (4) con- densed milk, (5) miscellaneous purposes. Milk as food.—It is estimated that the average person uses .6 of a pint of mi
. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 996 Rural School Leaflet. Using round numbers we may say that 6,000,000,000 pounds of milk are produced annually by New York cows ( pounds is the weight of one quart). Milk is used for: (i) food, (2) butter, (3) cheese, (4) con- densed milk, (5) miscellaneous purposes. Milk as food.—It is estimated that the average person uses .6 of a pint of milk daily as a beverage or in food. This is about one glassful. The amount might well be increased since milk is most nutritious and. Fig. 44.—Making cheese at the College of Agriculture cheap as compared with other foods. On this basis, the more than seven million residents of our state use as food every year over 1,600,000,000 pounds of milk. Most of this has to be carried a considerable distance to the consumer. A part of the milk used in New York City is hauled in trains from stations three to four hundred miles away. According to our State Department of Agriculture, there are about 700 milk stations in the State. As a rule the milk when delivered in our largest cities is twenty-four to thirty-six hours old. This is one reason why milk for the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station. [Ithaca, N. Y. ?]
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