Show I Milk Remains Low Cost Food I 69 6 9 6 67 7 51 ft 39 I 31 25 Milk as a low cost food has maintained maintained maintained main main- I its record despite the fact I that wages operating expenses and andraw andraw andraw I raw product costs have been at high levels according to Men Merrill ill N N. N Warnick of Pleasant Grove Giove Utah a member of the executive committee commit commit- t tee e of the American Dairy I tion Milk including dairy products is the most widely used food in the country comprising more moie than 20 per cent of the foods purchased annually annually annually an- an by the average AmericanA American A quart of milk is more than two pounds of food said Mr Warnick and Hand milk is a bargain because there is no waste wast every drop can be he used A much larger food budget would be needed in the average rage home if the vitamins minerals min min- min min- als and calories supplied b. b by milk had to be s secured ed from other sources The tiThe United States is the leadIng leading lead lead- ing dairy daily nation in the world and dairy farmers ar are making I dous dons efforts to answer the Governments Government's Govern Govern- ments ment's call for foi more milk t tion on Milk is considered the nations nation's I Number 1 food That milk is is a low cost food is indicated by a U U. S. S Department of Agriculture study which shows that an hour horn 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 ast ast I t t bought in 1929 A worker could buy almost seven quarts of milk I Ifor for one hours hour's wages in 1951 I In order to keep milk in the top I bracket as a u low cost food the in industry industry industry in- in I through the American I Dairy Association is making concerted concerted concerted con con- efforts to increase sales i through promotion financed finance by dairy farmers T The rhe he dairy farmer is also making new efforts at soil I conditioning better belter feeds and improvement improvement improvement im im- im- im I I provement of his output New I methods of production and distribution distribution I tion help to make milk and its pro products the best food buys |