Excerpt from Foreign News on Dairying: February-December, 1927; F. S. D-7 to F. S. D-17In relation to World supply and demand, the present position of the dairy industry of the United States is made somewhat more clearfiby reference to the historf of our foreign trade in dairy products. As between net importa tion and net exportation of dairy produce, the United States has been subject to general shifts both at long and short intervals. Since the early 8o's, the total trade has tended steadily, except for the late War period, away from.the disposal of an important surplus'production toward the supplying of a rather settled though slight deficiency. Stimulated by the War, however, the excess of exports over imports of all dairy'produ cts from the United States amounted in the calendar year 1919 to the equivalent in milk of short tons Exportations in that year of concentrated milk, butter, and cheese represent a ouantity of milk.sufficient to produce about one-half of Denmark's recent annual exports of butter, and more than was ever exported from the United States in any year during the period of our greatest normal surplus production. The previous peak of exportation had been reached in 1879 when.the total ex ports represented the product of approximately tons of milk. In 1879, however, the exports represented about 11 per cent of the total milk manufactured in that year, While the 1919 exports represented about 6 per cent only, indicating somewhat the expansion of the industry in.the meantime.Notwithstanding such increased domestic production and the develop ment Within a comparatively few years during and immediately after the War of such an enormous volume of exports, the United States Was soon again ice porting more dai1y'prod1cts than exported. Importation to supplement domestic supolies has now apparently settled back to about the basis reached before the War, as indicated by the folloring summary statement'About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.