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Show Sale of Farm Churned Butter at New Low The U. S. department of agriculture agri-culture reports the dairy farmer and his wife who used to take pride in the fine quality of the butter they churned and retailed to a favored list of discriminating buyers in town often at a good premium above the price of "store butter" are vanishing. van-ishing. In 1947, farm butter produced for sale had dropped below the 50 million mil-lion pound mark, and for 1949 it had dropped still further to about UVz million pounds. This is less than one quarter of the 175 million pounds marketed in 1924. In only eight states in 1949 was the total of farm butter marketed greater than 2 million pounds. |