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The average yield of butter from milk passed through the separator is about four pounds for every ten gallons of milk of ten pounds each ; so that the average cow produces annually from 150 to 200 pounds of butter, or 400 to 450 pounds of cheese. The yield of milk from fairly good milk- ing cattle is approximately 400 to 500 gallons per annum, although from 600 to 800 gallons per head are frequently obtained from selected herds. The rate paid for milk at the factories at present prices of cheese should average between seventy-five and eighty cents per hundred pounds.

There were in operation in the Island during the census year, forty-seven factories ; of which twenty-seven made cheese and butter ; fifteen made cheese only ; and five made butter only. The total value of the product was $566,824.00. In 1891 there were four cheese factories in the Island, and the total value of the product was $8,448.00. The Island is exceedingly well adapted for the dairying industry, and when the supply of milk becomes greater, it will fulfil its destiny as the Denmark of America.

Exhibitions. Exhibitions of live stock,farm,garden and dairy produce and manufactures, have, for a number ofyears,

been held at Charlottetown, Summerside, Georgetown, and other places. The provincial fair held at Charlottetown, in connection with horse races, under the auspices of the Driving Park Association, is, from an agricultural point of view, superior to any show of the kind in the Maritime Provinces.

Farm Methods—In agricultural matters, old methods are rapidly giving place to new. Following the example of other countries, many Prince Edward Island farmers are now bestowing attention upon the higher branches of agricul- ture; that is, turning their raw material into the finished products. They are now feeding their coarse grain to live stock instead of selling it, and are producing butter, cheese, meat, poultry and fruit for the British market. This change