England imports large quantities from Canada

the United States, and Denmark, as well as from Australia, The United States is an exporting country. The Southern countries make much le butter and consume le than the Northern countries. In the South, oils, such as olive oil, take, to a considerable extent. the place of butter, and, among the poorer cla es, butter is an almost unknown article of diet. The term butter has been occasionally applied to other substances. Certain vegetable oils which are solid at ordinary temperatures, such as palm oil, cocoanut oil, nutmeg oil, etc., are frequently called vegetable butter, and the name mineral butter has sometimes been applied to substances which _ are Lg different in nature. The Bureau of the Census reports the annual factory production of butter in the United States as over 530,000,000 pounds, valued at over $113,000,000.