Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1871 — Dairying in the United States. [ARTICLE]

Dairying in the United States.

The following statistics are 1 from the Lioe, Stock Journal: Bttt a few persons realize the magnitude of the dairying interest of -the country at tlie present time. The present produce of dheese is supposed, to'be 300,000,000 pounds, which, at fifteen cents a pound, amounts to $4(5,000,000; and of butter, 575,000,000, which, atftwenty-five cents a pound, amounts to $152,000,000; with 100,00,000*gallons of miik sold in foe cities and towns, and 00,000,000 gallons consumed in families where produced, worth $25,000,090; making together a dairy product of $215,000,000, besides the pork made from foe refuse of butter and cheese dairies. The number of cows is probably not less than 9,000,010.; foe number in 1860 was #8,728,862. ‘ ~

If we allow 5,0#0,#0p cows for making the butter, 1% will give 115 pounds to the cow, and 1,590,090 cows employed in producing cheese, which will be 200 pounds to a cow, 700,000 cotes for foe production of milk consumed -in cities and families of producers; leaVfeg 1,800,000 cows in the Western and Southern States devoted to raising stock. Frorathesefanta it will appear that foe average product of butter and cheese is vertrdftf below What it might be with the intmfrgenco and attention of breeding! feeding-end general management which foe magnitude,of the -subject demands. The first Collins cheese factory ;of Erie county; N. Y, for 188#,reports foe average from 730 cows at 420 pounds of cheese to a cow, while 200 pounds and over is a common yield to a cow in butter, from good*well-fed.fjows. .... •?