AMERICAN DAIRYING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 178, 14 August 1937, Page 19

AMERICAN DAIRYING

Industry Regaining Lost I Ground . BrG CHEESE INCREASE ' ' - .. There were 6498 establishments en.gaged.in- United States of America in the manufactui'e of tho major dairy products in " 1935, accordin'g _to the United , States - Census. vBureau. This,. is an increase of -739' over 1-983, but a de(Mj.ease of 322 under .1929. .Thq total yalue of these dairy- products .w-as apprqx'imately 741j00.0,0Q0 .dollars, an inefeuse of 34 per cent, over 1933 and a fLecrease pf 29 per cent. from 1929. The amount of creamery butter was 30,000;0001b. over .1929, but was 96, 000, 0001b. under 1933. The value of product deereased 244,000,000i " dollars from 1929, but incTeased 105,000,000 dollaTS over 1933,' The- total cheese production, other than eottage 'cheese 'types, was 633,00,0001b. in 1935. This was an increase'' of I62,000t0001b. over 1933, and 146,000,0001b. over 1929. Value inereas,ed ^1,000,000 dollarf pver 1933, but declined less than 9,000,000 dollars under 1929, The amount of evaporated milk of all kinds totalled, 2,120,000,0001b. in 1933, an increase. of. 28S,000,Q001b. over 1933, hnd 471%000, 0001b. over 1929. Its total value ' of '118,000,000 dollars wah 29,000,000 ■ dollars' in" excess pf 1933, bu.t .was 9,000,000. dollars .under 19? 9. . The.p4ee.of ,28,1 cents reportRd for ere'amery butter was' seven-tenths of a cent under .the average wholesalfe price of 9*2-score butter in Chicago for 1935, but was slightly over the average for 90-seore butter in that market. TEe price of 14.4 cents for wholemilk American cheese was the same as the wholesale " price on the Plymo'uth Exchange, but was 1.7 cents under the wliolesalef' price in Chi.cago. The 'SwisaicbiSese price of 17.1 cents was 25 .cents under the average eoun^ try price as repofte'd by the Wiseonsip Department of Markpts. fThe .price of .brick cheese, however, was the s'aftui as the reported country priqe. The average of 5.8 cents a. 1b. for evaporated whole milk -,wfts a half cpnt under the ^average wholesale price of • evaporated milk in cans as iepo'rted by the United States Bureau Of Agricul-t , • tural Economics for 1935. Drie'd 'skim milk as reported by. the census was also a half cent under ^the reported wliole^ sale average price. ■ ' 1~* • ' -Is '