Excerpt from Annual Report of the Department of Agriculture of the Province of Alberta, 1920 The Outstanding feature in connection with the dairy industry for the year was the increased volume of production. Taking into consider ation the very severe weather conditions that Obtained during the early part of the year, the scarcity and high price of cattle feeds, one cannot but be impressed with the fact that under more favorable conditions there would have been a much larger increase. A careful estimate places the value slightly over on the total dairy production for the year 1920, being an increase of some 10% over that of last year. The greater part of this increased value is, of course, due to the continued rise of the prices of creamery butter and. Therefore, of the relative market value of all other dairy products. The year's production of creamery butter was estimated at pounds, valued at the output of factory cheese was pounds representing a selling value of No figures are as yet available to show the production of butter in. Home dairies but it was undoubtedly larger than that of the previous years in that during the period of rising prices for all food commodities greater quantities of dairy products were consumed, more particularly on the farms and in rural and semi-urban communities. 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.