Total value of butter handled... Total value of cheese handled.... Total value of milk, cream and condensed milk handled. Total value of dairy products handled dur 448,834 40 2,718,750 00 $15,781,881 20 $19,493,137 90 6,092,669 60 15,781,881 20 ing the year.. Total increase in value of dairy products handled compared with 1895.... $41,367,688 70 $73,836 31 The statistics of dairy products handled in New York city in 1895 show, by comparison with 1896, that there has been a decrease in quantity of eastern butter received in that city of 2,060,310 pounds, and an increase of 29,703,600 quarts of milk, cream and condensed milk; also that there was a material decrease in the receipts of cheese during the same period, amounting to 2,511,480 pounds. The following table will show the net decrease of products handled during the year: Decrease in value of eastern butter handled in 1896, compared with 1895..... $374,855 80 Decrease in value of eastern cheese handled... 233,590 60 Decrease in value of milk, cream and condensed milk, same period.. 996,942 29 Decrease in the value of eastern dairy products handled in 1895, compared with 1896.... 1,605,388 69 Total value of eastern dairy products handled in New York city during the year: The following statistics, giving the value of eastern dairy products handled in New York city for the past four years, show an increase in value annually from 1890 to 1893, and a decrease in 1894, 1895 and 1896: Total of yearly value of products handled 1890-1896. Exports of Butter and Cheese. The following statistics, taken from the records of the New York Mercantile Exchange, show the exports of butter and cheese each year since January 1, 1883: From all ports in the United States, 1883. 22,375,708 21,391,196 19,593,872 14,404,727 12,531,171 8,749,366 25,983,054 23,895,914 14,970,538 11,251,250 6,837,289 10,231,417 13,935,017 23,335,729 From all ports in the United States, 1886. These statistics show that there have been 12,315,199 pounds. more butter exported from the port of New York during the first ten months of 1896 than during the corresponding ten months in 1895; also that the total receipts of butter in New York city during the year ending October 31, 1896, were 18,946,490 pounds more than during the previous year. *Ten months. From the port of New York, 1894. 52,903,719 30,692,702 25,947,401 111,973,140 111,950,686 The total receipts of cheese in the city of New Pounds. 87,533,905 50,375,760 37,158,145 Ten months. The total receipts of cheese in the city of New York during the year ending October 31, 1895 were.... 76,233,120 Less exports from port of New York, same pe riod... 29,008,368 Leaving for home trade.... 38,224,752 Being 1,060,607 pounds more left for home trade than the previous year. The total receipts of cheese in the city of New Pounds. York during the year ending October 31, 1896, were.... 64,721,640 Less exports from port of New York, same period.... 27,631,735 Leaving for home trade.... 37,089,905 Creamery, Being 1,134,847 pounds less for home trade than in the previous year. Average Price of Butter and Cheese for the Fiscal Year 1896. Best fresh. cents. cents. 14 13.81 17% 1356 Best June. Pounds. |