Show AAA farm news front from county AAA office why butter Is scarce greatly increased consumption of fluid in milk ilk cream and specialty dairy products Is one reason reabun why city housewives are not finding more butter in storekeepers refrigerators most ot of the consumption increase Is in coffee cream whip ping cream ice cream and fluid milk itself fluid cream dealers and industrial users of butter tat fat have been paying higher for cream than can be obtained from manufacture ot of butter under present price regulations while farm production of 0 milk in 1945 1946 gained about 45 billion pounds over 1944 manufacture of butter dropped nearly million pounds during the same period dutter butter production in 1944 was lose close to so 30 per cent under prewar production from a prewar a average of around 31 billion pounds annually milk consumed as milk or cream in cities and towns had jumped to more than 44 billion pounds by 1944 milk going into lea fee cream has increased 30 to 40 per cent during recent months compared with the like period ot of 1944 1914 production ot of dry ice cream mix largely tor for military use doubled last year |