DAIRYING IN THE SOUTH.
The South takes legitimate pride in its growing dairying industry. Thirteen Southern States have increased their butter production from twenty-four million pounds in 1918 to more than one hundred million pounds last year. Eighteen Southern States which had no cheese factories at all in 1914 produced more than six-and-a-half-million pounds of cheese last year. Similarly, in ten years, the production of con- densed and evaporated milk increased from four-and-a-half million pounds to approximately eighty-three million pounds. Progress in dairying has been helped by Federal and State agricultural departments, instruction in local agricultural col- leges and the formation of dairying clubs. Increased con- sumption of dairy products in the South is credited with a large part in tuberculosis eradication, in which the Southern States are leading the country. Increased production has been accompanied by improvements in dairy science and the handling of produce. Modern plants, cooling and shipping stations, pasteurization, and local patriotism, stirred by the press and the agricultural experts, have all contributed to the developments of which the South is justifiably proud.
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