The agricultural output of England and Wales 1925

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Identifikator:: 1757028552

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-135495

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: The agricultural output of England and Wales 1925

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1927

Scope:: XV, 152 Seiten; graph. Darst., Kt.

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter V. The output of livestock products

Collection:: Economics Books

It is apparent that the bulk of the milk produced is sold or consumed in liquid form in each division, although the propor- tions consumed in the farm households vary considerably. Butter is made to an appreciable extent in all divisions, but in Wales over 30 per cent. of the milk produced is converted into butter, a substantial part of which is consumed on the farm. In the north-eastern division the proportion is a little below 30 per cent., in the south-western division over 20 per cent., and in the northern division 17 per cent. The proportion of milk used for cheese-making on farms is negligible except in the north-western, west midland and south-western divisions and in North Wales. Only 10 per cent. of the milk in the north-western division and 6 per cent. in the south-western are, however, used for cheese, but the production of milk in these divisions is very high. Nearly 60 per cent. of the cheese produced comes from farms of 100-300 acres where the dairy herds are fairly large, and only a small proportion of the cheese manufactured is consumed in the farm households, except in South Wales where only about one-third of the small quantity made is sold. The greatest proportion of milk separated and sold as cream is found in the south-west, where about 2 per cent. of the milk output is used for this purpose. The figures given for agricultural divisions, while of interest as showing the manner in which milk is utilised in different parts of the country, yet do not show the substantial differences in the utilisation of the milk produced in different parts of the agricultural divisions themselves. In the eastern, south-eastern, east midland, west midland and north-western divisions no more than 10 per cent. of the milk produced is shown as converted into butter, yet within these divisions, Cumberland and the Isle of Ely convert over 40 per cent. of their milk into butter, Hereford over 35 per cent., and Huntingdon, West Suffolk, the Isle of Wight, the Soke of Peterborough and Westmorland over 25 per cent. In the south-western division, where high propor- tions are converted both into butter and into cheese, the butter is made in Devon and Cornwall, where about 38 and 48 per cent. of the milk is used for this purpose, while the cheese is made in Somerset and Dorset, the percentage of milk used being 13 and 7 per cent. respectively. The only counties in England in which over 10 per cent. of the milk produced is used for cheese- making on the farms are Salop with about 28 per cent., Cheshire 25 per cent., and Lancashire and Somerset with 13 per cent. while in Wales, Flint and Denbigh use about 24 and 19 per cent. respectively for this purpose. The quantity of milk used for the production of cream for Sale is very small on the whole, but Westmorland, Devon and Cornwall sell respectively 22, 17 and 17 quarts of cream per 1,000 gallons of milk produced. The farmers of Devon and Corn- wall sell nearly one-half of the cream sold by farmers in England

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