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Show I Designate June As National Dairy Month As part of the national effort to meet 19-12 dairy production goals. United States and Utah government officials have designated desig-nated the month of June as national na-tional dairy products months. Last week, Governor Herbert B. Maw added his official proclamation proclama-tion of the month to that of the president of the nation and summarized sum-marized the purpose of the observance ob-servance when he said: "The entire nation is conscious of its nutritional needs. Wholesome dairy products, milk, cream, butter but-ter and cheese are more essential than ever before. Millions pounds of dried milk are being sent and will continue to be sent to our allies. al-lies. Dairy products 'will play an important part in writing the peace, which must this time stand the test of centuries to come." National production goals :pll for an eight percent increase in production during this year over 1941 figures, while for Utah, the goals require a 13 percent increase. In pounds of milk that means 656 million pounds for Utah; for the nation, 109,576 million pounds. To date these production goals have been met according to a recent re-cent report by the United States Department of Agriculture. The output of evaporated milk for March was 63 percent higher than the corresponding month of last year; cheese was 58 percent higher. Today in America there are 26,-000,000 26,-000,000 dairy icows in daily production, produc-tion, which is one for every five I persons. In Utah we have 110,000 dairy cows, which is of about the same proportion. As set forth by governmental officials then, tlaiional Dairy month has its eye or, more cows, better and more milk. It's a month set aside to watch the progress of the dairy industry an industry that ranks as one of the most important im-portant of the nation. |