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Show American Fork Dairymen And Workers To Salute Important Utah Industry In Keeping With National Dairy Month This month the United States will salute and pay a special tribute to its greatest agricultural industry dairying. The dairy industry in this country has been growing steadily until it ranks now among the major agricultural industries in many of the states. Jesse Spafford, president of the American Fork Jersey Bull Black, and A. C. Nilsson and W. W. Robinson Robin-son comprise the committee which is supervising the local observance in honor of the dairy industry. This committee is planning to inform the public as to the extent and importance im-portance of dairying, and to promote pro-mote the use of dairy products. In Utah, dairying is the second largest agricultural enterprise in income in-come to the farmers being surpassed by only sheep. Of the 30,000 farms in Utah, 24,000 are dependent wholly whol-ly or in part on dairying. There are 100,000 dairy cows in Utah and 33 butter factories, 24 cheese plants, five powdered milk plants, 21 ice cream factories, 101 counter freezer plants, three condensed milk factories, factor-ies, 44 market milk plants and 200 producer-distributor dairies. Not counting the men employed on the 24,000 farms, approximately 3,000 persons are employed in the manufacturing plants in this state. This total places the dairy business as the leading contributor to the welfare of the people of Utah. Dairy products cannot be readily replaced in the human diet. There is no substitute for milk as a human hu-man food as milk is the most complete com-plete single food known at the present pres-ent time. The production of milk is very seasonal so far as the cows are concerned. con-cerned. In most herds milk is produced pro-duced in accordance with the growth of the grass. May and June are the months each year that more milk is produced than can be consumed. From August to December production produc-tion is low with a scarcity for the product on most markets. For each 100 pounds of milk produced pro-duced in June in most herds there is approximately 50 pounds produced in the fall months. To have enough milk throughout the year it is necessary neces-sary to take care of a surplus during this season. The dairy interests of the United States are asking the cooperation and support of the consuming public to use a little more milk or some other form of dairy products in order ord-er to prevent a great storage of surplus sur-plus products and wide fluctuations in prices that make the business uncertain. |
