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Show June 1968 UTAH FARM BUREAU SDnoros aai?uey It's general knowledge that use of convenience foods Is Increasing, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture found some surprises In comparing use of 32 convenience foods In 1955 and 1956. Low Income households In creased caoms their use of the about 32 con- venience foods more than high-incohouseholds. The money value of convenience foods used by the group Increased by 47 percent, while the increase for the high income group was me low-inco- Odd me Feeding Concentrates Reduce Dairy Costs By Group Feeding Page NEWS QiJse percent. The average for all households was 34 per28 cent. Fresh, commercial fruit juice was one of the biggest gainers In the 10 year period, with nearly a 3 fold Increase. Powdered fruit ades and punches registered a 200 percent Increase in quantity used, in spite of a 9 fold increase in cost value. The data on convenience foods were gathered as part of a comprehensive survey of food consumption in U.S. households in the spring of 1965. This and a similar survey in 1955 were conducted by food economists in USDAs Agricultural Research Service. Data were collected on all foods used during a 1 week period, including the 32 commonly used convenience ? (oiraueiraneira(2e IFoocOs per person was from $1.84 to $2.47 - - up about 34 percent. Use of all commercially processed soups went up, but the gain was greatest for dehydrated soups. Use of dehydrated soups increased 100 percent, compared with 30 percent for canned, condensed less in money value than the U.S. average (because their use of these foods was fairly high in 1955), they were using convenience foods with an average money value per person per week of $2.58 - - more than the U.S. average. The major shift by regions in the was in the South, which U.S. soups. Ready-to-e- at breakfast cereals scored an Increase of more than 30 per cent in quality of use, in spite of their Increase in price reflected in their 90 percent great- er showed a 56 percent increase in money values of convenience foods used between 1955 and 1965, compared with the U.S. average of 34 percent. Spending for convenience foods in the South also Increased more in relation to total food money value in 1965. Instant coffee consumption rose by 125 percent, while its money value Increased only about 33 per- purchases. cent. Young Thieves Rural farm families increased their use of convenience foods, in money value terms, by 61 percent between 1955 and 1965. Even so, the money value of convenience foods used per person per week was still less for farm families ($1.98) than the average for the U.S. ($2.47). Although urban families use of convenience foods changed Dairymen can reduce labor costs by feeding a grain mix in the manger instead of in the parlor, according to a report presented at the American Dairy Science Association annual meeting at Ohio State foods reported here. The combined money value of University. 32 convenience foods purthese Research at Utah State University, Logan, and experience of many the 1 week survey dairymen have shown that cows produced as much milk when the herd chase during was fed the same amount of grain mix In a group manger as was fed period Increased 33 percent - -$6.15 per household in 1955 Individually in the milking parlor, said Dr. George Stoddard, head, from to in 1965. The increase $8.13 Department of Dairy Science at USU. He said that dairymen wondered if cows would enter the parlor without grain as an inducement. Those who tried, he reported, observed that cows would come in just to be milked and that they may be more contented during milking than when they are busy eating grain. Dairymen were also concerned that cows, ingroup grain feeding, would not consume enough grain and that low producers would get too much. Using milk production, body weight, and body condition of the cows as the basis of comparison, studies and a close suggest experience need between for feed relationship and aggressive eating habits, Dr. Stoddard said. he Cows," said, have been observed to eat about one pound of grain mix less than the number of minutes access to the He explained that a cow grain. in the milking staff four minutes per milking may, by this measure, consume about three pounds of grain mix per milking. For a cow to consume 20 pounds of grain mix daily, she would have to be in the parlor nine to 15 minutes twice daily. Dr. Stoddard said some dairymen delay their milking sufficiently long for cows to eat their grain mix, while others turn the cows out before their grain mix is consumed, thereby underfeeding the cow. Neither system is economically sound, he said. At the manger, Dr. Stoddard said, cows may eat the grain mix until they have satisfied their apetltes, or until the feed is consumed. Experience shows that the cows eat grain mix The brand new HOMESAVER policy faster and stay at the manger from Country Mutual Life combines the longer than cows producing at a low level. With a bulk bin at the manadvantages of mortgage protection with ger a herd of 40 cows can be fed your choice of a fire policy, homeowners their grain mix in about five minpolicy or Country Squire policy. In utes at each feeding. 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