Show Milk l Remains Low Cost Food I 67 69 rV 51 ir f 39 31 25 Milk as a low cost food has maintained maintained maintained main main- its record despite the fact that wages operating expenses and andraw andraw andraw raw product costs have been at high levels according to Merrill N. N Warnick of Pleasant Grove Utah a 1 member of the executive committee commit commit- tee of the American Dairy tion Milk including dairy products is the most widely widell used food in the country comprising more than 20 per cent of the foods purchased annually an an by the average AmericanA American A quart of milk is more than S two pounds of food said Mr Warnick and milk is a bargain because there is no waste every i V r drop can be used A much larger i food budget would be needed in the j I average home ome if the vitamins minI mins minerals min min- and calories supplied by milk mUk I j had to be secure secured d from other I sources The United States Is the leading lead in ing dairy nation in the world and 1 dan dairy farmers are ate making tremor tremor- dous dour efforts to answer the Governments Governments Government's Governments Government's Govern Govern- ments ment's call for more milk tion Milk is considered the nations nation's Number 1 food That milk is a low cost food is indicated by a U U. S. S Department of Agriculture study which shows that an hour of factory labor today will buy almost three times as much milk as the same hour bought in 1914 and almost twice as much as asIt asit ast It t bought in 1929 A worker could buy almost seven quarts of milk for one hours hour's wages in 1951 In order to keep milk in the top bracket as a low cost food the Industry in industry industry In- In through the American Dairy Association is making concerted concerted concerted con con- efforts to increase sales through promotion financed by dairy farmers The dairy farmer is also making new efforts at soil IOU conditioning better feeds reeds and improvement Improvement improvement im im- provement of his output o New methods of production and distribution tion help to make milk and its ill products ts the best bes food buys |