Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1920 — INDIANA MILK WORTH $100,000,000 YEARLY [ARTICLE]

INDIANA MILK WORTH $100,000,000 YEARLY

■' • Il (Data compiled by Purdue University shows big gain in Dairying) Lafayette, Ind., June B.—Although Indiana is probably fourth or fifth in the list of dairy states, figures gathered by the dairy department of Purdue University show that approximately 2,908,000,000 pounds of milk, worth $100,000,000 in round numbers, were produced in the state last year. The production figures represent an increase of 26 percent in the last four years. All the data is based on reports to the creamery license division ■by the manufacurers and on data gathered by the extension department dairymen. Last year a total of 43,200,846 pounds of creamery butter were made in this state against 37,174,057 the year before. The amount of condensed milk made increased from 29,574,337 pounds to 32,517,841 pounds in one year. A total of 6,371,370 gallons of ice cream were madd in 1919 and 1,002,320,000 pounds of milk were used for direct consumption, while 580,500,522 or its equivalent were shipped out of the state. The only products which have shown a decrease in production are cheese and dairy butter. The former has decreased since 1914 from 2,119,220 pounds to 678,522 pounds and the annual production of dairy jutter has dropped from a half lillion pounds to 20,500,000. Creamery butter and condensed milk have shown the greatest increase in production.

The number of milk cows on the 'aims is gradually increasing, 727,)00 being reported for last year, a gain of 27,000 over 1918, and of 87,000 since 1914. The value of milk to the producer has gone up 'rom $1.50 in 1914 to $3.45 in 1919, due to the greatly increased cost of production. The creamery license division has cept careful records of the production of butterfat in Washington county for the last two years. Practically all of the fat produced in that county is shipped from station to factories where it is made into creamery butter. In 1918, the stations of this county bought 488,379.9 pounds of fat and in 1919, 771,704.3 pounds. The number of cream buying stations increased he past year from 19 to 37 and he amount purchased by each sta;ion during the year was nearly as much as in 1918. All counties n southern Indiana have increased heir dairy products materially.