A 
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available as to the production of butter, cheese and condensed 
milk in creameries and factories, but information on this point 
will be published by the Board of Trade in the Report on the 
Industrial Census of Production. 
No reliable comparison is possible with earlier years as to the 
disposal of the milk production of the country; a tentative 
estimate, however, on the basis of the information available 
indicates that the sales of milk, including milk consumed in 
farmers’ households, in 1908 were about 735 million gallons as 
compared with 888 million gallons in 1925. Generally it is 
believed that butter making on farms has declined during the 
past seventeen years, but whether there has been any appreciable 
change in cheese making is uncertain. 
The proportion of the total milk produced in different districts 
which is sold as liquid milk is naturally affected by the quantity of 
butter and cheese manufactured, but it is also influenced by the 
size of the farms. Where the number of cows kept per farm is 
large, the bulk of the production is available for sale as milk or 
dairy produce, whereas on farms where only a few cows are kept 
the domestic needs of the occupier, and to a certain extent 
perhaps of his workers, may account for the consumption of an 
appreciable part of the total production. 
To some extent this is brought out in the next table which 
shows the utilisation of each 1,000 gallons of milk produced in 
each agricultural division. 
METHOD OF DISPOSAL OF EACH 1,000 GALLONS OF MILK PRODUCED 
IN EACH AGRICULTURAL DIVISION IN ENGLAND AND WALES 
(ExcLUDING Mik FED To CALVES or Pras). 
Agricultural 
Division. 
Eastern - 
North-Eastern 
South-Eastern 
East Midland 
West Midland 
South-Western 
Northern 3 
North-Western 
North Wales - 
South Wales - 
England and 
Wales . 
Sales off farms expressed as milk. 
Milk. if Butter. Cheese.| Crean. 
Total. 
827 
591 
856 
860 
765 
643 
746 
779 
185 
4104. 
83 
244 
72 
66 
68 
186 | 
139 
61 
208 
269 
2 4 
9 
p 
913 
838 
935 
935 
926 
913 
896 
945 
803 
762 
| 
D) 
7 
90 
63 
7 
101 
108 
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3 
5 
) 
7933 
119 
4K 
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Quantity of 
milk 
consumed in 
farm 
households as 
milk, butter, 
cheese. &c. 
87 
162 
65 
65 
74 
87 
104 
55 
197 
298 
Less than 1 gallon.