AN ENORMOUS MILK SUPPLY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 953, 21 October 1910, Page 8

AN ENORMOUS MILK SUPPLY.

• ': CHICAGO'S DAILY DRAUGHT. The Jlilk- Commission of Chicago, in a recent report, made the following statements: —"■ .•, ■ i ' supply of' Chicago averages 210,000 per day., ■ ■ This is produced by' 120,000 co\rs on. 12;000, farms in four States.- ■ The; city's, niilk supply fills 20,000 caiis 'and 350,000 . bottles, requiring approximately. 120 cars: to transport'. '/. .■■ ■ More railroads are used in.bringing the morning's'milk into -Hie city, and ,wlien:it "arrives it is handled, by 5000 distributers. : ; _ - ■■_' ' ■•■-. '^-Ninety.thousand persons in Chicago:use 'milk as ■.-.their sole-food., , ' " TrlE-'doNTINENTALi MARKET.' : ;' ■:.The Minister'for A'gricultpTe states that ;hi,s:,:'"Departmenti'. with, the i High Commissioner's- Office, is studying all aspects pj the^Continental market.with.a view to.securing openings for our meat .arid other' .products. It is inevitable that an increased trade in. food sup-:-plies miast in the near future, take place among: the .Continental,;markets,-v.wliioli,'-:'upiq;the present,.have, debarred' by resi rictiye :tariffs .end-, .'other- methods the f<bd -products :.fr6m;\New :; Zealand aid , o,'jlier ', .countries entering ■■ their ; iriarkets'j lathis connection means.are being .adcVtr ■eil; to'- secure .as/.far as, possible for- JJew Z-j.il'arid'.,'terms " eijual yg;, those grantedbthei exporting couritrfes. : J .-;