Excerpt from Facts About Milk (Revised) It'would be impossible to closely estimate the value of all property devoted to dairying, but it can be safely said that in gross investment it is exceeded by few other branches of industry. There are about cows in this country, or about one to every four inhabitants; one cow, however, furnishes the milk, butter, and cheese for more than four persons, as some dairy products are exported. Although this is the greatest dairy country in the world, it does not lead in the per capita consumption of dairy products; one of the principal reasons for this is the failure of Americans to appreciate the food value of milk and its products. In some. Of the older European countries two or three times as much milk and cheese is consumed per capita as in the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.